CVE-2010-2883
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,…
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- adobe
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.4% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- SUSE-SA:2010:048 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 43025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0344 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- GLSA-201101-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#491991 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0743 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- TA10-279A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 41340 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- adobe-reader-cooltype-code-execution(61635) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TLSA-2011-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2883 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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