CVE-2014-9161

critical
Published 2015-01-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.13 and 11.x before 11.0.10 on Windows, and 10.x through 10.1.13 and 11.x through 11.0.10 on OS X, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

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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OS impact

macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.13
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat10.0
adobe adobeacrobat10.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat10.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat10.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat10.1
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.8
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.9
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.10
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.11
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.12
adobe adobeacrobat11.0
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.4
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.5
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.6
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.7
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.8
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.9
adobe adobeacrobat10.1.13
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.8
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.9
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.10
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.11
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.1.12
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.01
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.02
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.03
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.04
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.05
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.06
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.07
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.08
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.09

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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