CVE-2010-2883 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

What is CVE-2010-2883?

CVE-2010-2883 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 9 Sep 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2883?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2883?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 22 Jun 2022.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-2883 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2010-2883 in the wild since at least 8 Jun 2022.

Public exploit code: 2 Metasploit modules, 2 Exploit-DB entries and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m6wc-h767-27c3.