CVE-2021-39846

Adobe Acrobat Reader /Parent Property Recursive Stack Overflow

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Sep 29, 2021
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Aug 23, 2021

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by a stack overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted PDF file, potentially resulting in memory corruption in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted PDF file in Acrobat Reader.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	2020.004.30006 and earlierAffected 2017.011.30199 and earlierAffected 2021.005.20060 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-55.html

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