Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC jpeg Decoder Vulnerability
Summary: Cisco Talos disclosed TALOS-2016-0259 / CVE-2017-2971, an uninitialized memory vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC's embedded JPEG Decoder that a specially crafted PDF containing a JPEG can trigger, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow that can be leveraged for remote code execution. The issue was discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos and has been resolved in Adobe's most recent patch, with Snort rules 41298 through 41305 detecting exploitation attempts.
Key Takeaway: A PDF is still one of the most routine files an employee opens, and this flaw turns a JPEG inside one into a path to remote code execution - so the gap between Adobe's patch and your deployment is the exposure window.
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- Topics
- Cloud Security
- Mentions
- CVE-2017-2971
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