CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0927

8.8 HIGH Known exploited Published 2009-03-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability — Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Added to KEV
2022-03-25
Remediation due
2022-04-15
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0927
Status
Analyzed
Published
2009-03-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-121, CWE-20

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9 before 9.1, 8 before 8.1.3 , and 7 before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0658.

Affected configurations

• adobe acrobat reader (>= 7.0 < 7.1.1) • adobe acrobat reader (>= 8.0 < 8.1.3) • adobe acrobat reader (>= 9.0 < 9.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References