VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1278

critical
Published 2010-04-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Buffer overflow in the Atlcom.get_atlcom ActiveX control in gp.ocx in Adobe Download Manager, as used in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2 and 9.x before 9.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified parameters.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobereader8.0.0
adobe adobereader8.1.1
adobe adobereader8.1.2
adobe adobereader8.1.4
adobe adobereader8.1.5
adobe adobereader8.1.6
adobe adobereader8.1.7
adobe adobereader9.0
adobe adobereader9.1
adobe adobereader9.1.1
adobe adobereader9.1.2
adobe adobereader9.1.3
adobe adobereader9.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.0
adobe adobeacrobat8.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat9.0
adobe adobeacrobat9.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.