Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-0938 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Adobe products

CVSS 8.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

adobe

CWE-119

nessus

NVD

Published: 2016-01-14

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The AcroForm plugin in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.14, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30119, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.010.20056 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, and CVE-2016-0946.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Adobe Adobe Acrobat Reader - Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.02 Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5A Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5C Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.9 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.11 Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.9 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.1.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.8 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.9 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.10 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.11 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.12 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.13 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.14 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.15 Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.1.16 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.01 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.02 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.2 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.03 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.04 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.4 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.05 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.5 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.06 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.6 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.07 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.7 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.08 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.8 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.09 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.9 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.10 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.11 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.12 Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.13 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.0 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.000.0000 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.006.30033 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.006.30060 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.006.30094 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.006.30096 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.006.30097 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.007.20033 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.008.20082 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.009.20069 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.009.20071 Adobe Acrobat DC 15.009.20077 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.000.0000 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.006.30033 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.006.30060 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.006.30094 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.006.30096 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.006.30097 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.007.20033 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.008.20082 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.009.20069 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.009.20071 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.009.20077 Adobe Acrobat - Adobe Acrobat 1.0 Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Adobe Acrobat 3.0 Adobe Acrobat 3.1 Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Adobe Acrobat 4.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 4.0.5A Adobe Acrobat 4.0.5C Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 5.0.6 Adobe Acrobat 5.0.10 Adobe Acrobat 5.1 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.1 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.2 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.3 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.4 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 6.0.6 Adobe Acrobat 7 Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.1 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.2 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.3 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.4 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.6 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.7 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 Adobe Acrobat 7.0.9 Adobe Acrobat 7.1.0 Adobe Acrobat 7.1.1 Adobe Acrobat 7.1.2 Adobe Acrobat 7.1.3 Adobe Acrobat 7.1.4 Adobe Acrobat 8 Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Adobe Acrobat 8.0.0 Adobe Acrobat 8.1 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.4 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.5 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6 Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Adobe Acrobat 8.2 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.2 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.3 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.4 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.5 Adobe Acrobat 8.2.6 Adobe Acrobat 8.3 Adobe Acrobat 8.3.1 Adobe Acrobat 9 Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Adobe Acrobat 9.1 Adobe Acrobat 9.1.1 Adobe Acrobat 9.1.2 Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 Adobe Acrobat 9.2 Adobe Acrobat 9.3 Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1 Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 Adobe Acrobat 9.3.3 Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 Adobe Acrobat 9.4 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.1 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.2 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.3 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.4 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.5 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.6 Adobe Acrobat 9.4.7 Adobe Acrobat 9.5 Adobe Acrobat 9.5.1 Adobe Acrobat 9.5.2 Adobe Acrobat 9.5.3 Adobe Acrobat 9.5.4 Adobe Acrobat 9.5.5 Adobe Acrobat 10.0 Adobe Acrobat 10.0.1 Adobe Acrobat 10.0.2 Adobe Acrobat 10.0.3 Adobe Acrobat 10.1 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.0 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.1 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.2 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.3 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.4 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.5 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.6 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.7 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.8 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.9 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.10 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.11 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.12 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.13 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.14 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.15 Adobe Acrobat 10.1.16 Adobe Acrobat 11.0 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.0 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.1 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.2 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.3 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.4 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.5 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.6 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.7 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.8 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.9 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.10 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.11 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.12 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.13 Adobe Acrobat _Reader9.5.3	308
OS	Apple Apple MAC OS X *	1
OS	Microsoft Microsoft Windows *	1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
Overflow Buffers
Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
MIME Conversion
An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

NASL family	MacOS X Local Security Checks
NASL id	MACOSX_ADOBE_READER_APSB16-02.NASL
description	The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote Mac OS X host is a version prior to 11.0.14, 15.006.30119, or 15.010.20056. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, CVE-2016-0940, CVE-2016-0941) - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0938, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, CVE-2016-0946) - Multiple double-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0935, CVE-2016-1111) - A flaw exists in the Global JavaScript API that allows a remote attacker to bypass restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0943) - A flaw exists in the download manager related to the directory search path used to find resources. A remote attacker can exploit this execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0947) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	87920
published	2016-01-14
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87920
title	Adobe Reader < 11.0.14 / 15.006.30119 / 15.010.20056 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-02) (Mac OS X)

NASL family	Windows
NASL id	ADOBE_READER_APSB16-02.NASL
description	The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote host is a version prior to 11.0.14, 15.006.30119, or 15.010.20056. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, CVE-2016-0940, CVE-2016-0941) - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0938, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, CVE-2016-0946) - Multiple double-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0935, CVE-2016-1111) - A flaw exists in the Global JavaScript API that allows a remote attacker to bypass restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0943) - A flaw exists in the download manager related to the directory search path used to find resources. A remote attacker can exploit this execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0947)
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	87918
published	2016-01-14
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87918
title	Adobe Reader < 11.0.14 / 15.006.30119 / 15.010.20056 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-02)

NASL family	MacOS X Local Security Checks
NASL id	MACOSX_ADOBE_ACROBAT_APSB16-02.NASL
description	The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Mac OS X host is a version prior to 11.0.14, 15.006.30119, or 15.010.20056. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, CVE-2016-0940, CVE-2016-0941) - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0938, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, CVE-2016-0946) - Multiple double-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0935, CVE-2016-1111) - A flaw exists in the Global JavaScript API that allows a remote attacker to bypass restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0943) - A flaw exists in the download manager related to the directory search path used to find resources. A remote attacker can exploit this execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0947) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	87919
published	2016-01-14
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87919
title	Adobe Acrobat < 11.0.14 / 15.006.30119 / 15.010.20056 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-02) (Mac OS X)

NASL family	Windows
NASL id	ADOBE_ACROBAT_APSB16-02.NASL
description	The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Windows host is a version prior to 11.0.14, 15.006.30119, or 15.010.20056. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, CVE-2016-0940, CVE-2016-0941) - Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0938, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, CVE-2016-0946) - Multiple double-free errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0935, CVE-2016-1111) - A flaw exists in the Global JavaScript API that allows a remote attacker to bypass restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0943) - A flaw exists in the download manager related to the directory search path used to find resources. A remote attacker can exploit this execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0947) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	87917
published	2016-01-14
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87917
title	Adobe Acrobat < 11.0.14 / 15.006.30119 / 15.010.20056 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-02)

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Nessus

References