CVE-2010-2883: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.3. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-06-08. EPSS: 81.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: from 8.0, before 8.2.5 (fixed in 8.2.5); from 9.0, before 9.4 (fixed in 9.4)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 8.0, before 8.2.5 (fixed in 8.2.5); from 9.0, before 9.4 (fixed in 9.4)

Published 2010-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.