Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image conversion engine when processing Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) data related to drawing ASCII text string. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-24.html | patch vendor advisory |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039098 | vdb entry third party advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100179 | vdb entry third party advisory |