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The setBackground function in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The setBackground function in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.16 and 11.x before 11.0.13, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 2015.006.30094, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 2015.009.20069 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via invalid arguments, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6697, CVE-2015-6699, CVE-2015-6701, CVE-2015-6702, CVE-2015-6703, and CVE-2015-6704.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 14, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(82nd percentile)

Weaknesses

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2015-6700

GHSA ID

GHSA-wj4x-ccxf-pr24

Source code

No known source code

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