Risk: High
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, announced Adobe, the giant document and publishing software company. This issue has been addressed and a product update is available to proactively mitigate potential malicious activity.
If the vulnerability were successfully exploited, the application could crash with an increased risk of arbitrary code execution.
The identified vulnerability is a buffer overflow within a core application plug-in, which is part of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. If a malicious file were opened it could trigger a buffer overflow as the file is being loaded into Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. A buffer overflow can cause the application to crash and increase the risk of malicious code execution.