CVE-2011-0599

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Bitmap parsing component in rt3d.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 a crafted image that causes an invalid pointer calculation related to 4/8-bit RLE compression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0596, CVE-2011-0598, and CVE-2011-0602.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4 (+22)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.4, 8.1.5 (+21)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/43470
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-03.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0301.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516314
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46220
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025033
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0337
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0492
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-072/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12424
http://secunia.com/advisories/43470
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-03.html

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