CVE-2012-1530

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the XSLT engine in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.3, 10.x before 10.1.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a PDF file containing an XSL file that triggers memory corruption when the lang function processes XML data with a crafted node-set.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2 (+26)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2 (+26)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00081.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0150.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-02.html
http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1019
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16094
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html

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