CVE-2010-2883
Published 2010-09-09 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source psirt@adobe.com
Summary
CVE-2010-2883 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.3) vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 22, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Adobe has 82 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 11 of them linked to ransomware.
All 82 known-exploited Adobe vulnerabilities →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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Adobe — Acrobat and Reader
Name: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-06-08 · Due: 2022-06-22
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41340
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43025
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-08.xml
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html

