CVE-2009-0198: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JBIG2 filter in Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 before 7.1.3, Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 before 8.1.6, and Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 before 9.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that contains JBIG2 text region segments with Huffman encoding.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.5 only; …
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.5 only; …

Published 2009-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.