Lucene search

K
zdiWei LeiSun Zhihao and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological UniversityZDI-16-422
HistoryJul 12, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Adobe Reader DC XSLT value-of Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2016-07-1200:00:00
Wei LeiSun Zhihao and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University
www.zerodayinitiative.com
20

EPSS

0.035

Percentile

91.6%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Reader DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of XPath expressions. A PDF document with a specific value-of element and an XPath expression can force Adobe Reader DC to write values past the end of an allocated object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.