The Bitmap parsing component in 2d.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows…

Description

The Bitmap parsing component in 2d.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image with crafted (1) height and (2) width values for an RLE_8 compressed bitmap, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0598, CVE-2011-0599, and CVE-2011-0602.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.2% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-20

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• ADV-2011-0492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 43470 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2011:0301 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0337 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1025033 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

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)
• 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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2011-0596](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2011-0596.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2011-0596)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 21:58 UTC.