CVE-2017-2972 Memory corruption in Adobe Acrobat Reader 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier.

What is CVE-2017-2972?

CVE-2017-2972 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 24 Jan 2017. 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

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image conversion module related to JPEG parsing. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2972?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Dc, Adobe Acrobat Reader Dc, Adobe Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2017-2972?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2972 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2017-2972 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2972 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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
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Also known as GHSA-wj7c-8cm3-fjhm.