CVE-2011-2438

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the image-parsing library in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.3.1, 9.x before 9.4.6, and 10.x before 10.1.1 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4 (+32)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4 (+30)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00025.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-24.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13892
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00025.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-24.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13892

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