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CVE-2012-4896

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SumatraPDF before 2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4895.

Affected products

• sumatrapdfreader sumatrapdf: through 2.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+21)

References

• http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/source/browse/trunk/docs/releasenotes.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50656
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/msvr/msvr12-014
• http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/source/browse/trunk/docs/releasenotes.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50656
• http://technet.microsoft.com/security/msvr/msvr12-014

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