CVEs / CVE-2010-2883

CVE-2010-2883: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 8 Jun 2022
high 7.3 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
EPSS 81.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
Last changed at its sources 16 Jun 2026

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Summary

Adobe Acrobat and Reader contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute code or cause denial-of-service (DoS).
CISA, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
The CVE record, via NVD · published 9 Sep 2010 · NVD status: Analyzed

Affected and fixed versions

As stated by the CVE record (from the CNA)
Product	Affected	Fixed in
n/a n/a	n/a	—

Exploitation

In CISA KEV since	8 Jun 2022
Due date for US federal agencies	22 Jun 2022
Used in ransomware campaigns	Unknown
Required action	Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity

CVSS 3.1	7.3 high `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H` Scored by NVD
Weakness	CWE-787

References

CVE-2010-2883 on NVD
CVE-2010-2883 in the CISA KEV catalog
http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html Broken Link
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html Broken Link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/41340 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/43025 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-08.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/491991 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0743.html Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43057 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2011/TLSA-2011-2j.txt Broken Link
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-279A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2331 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0191 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0344 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61635 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11586 Broken Link
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2883 US Government Resource

Sources

Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.

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