VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4896

critical
Published 2012-10-05 · 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

Heap-based buffer overflow in SumatraPDF before 2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4895.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf{"endIncluding":"2.0.1"}
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.2
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.3
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.4
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.5
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.6
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.7
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.8
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.8.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.9
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.9.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.9.2
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.9.3
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf0.9.4
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.0
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.0.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.2
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.3
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.4
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.5
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.5.1
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.6
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.7
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.8
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf1.9
sumatrapdfreadersumatrapdf2.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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