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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-2168 in the critical feed json

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PD…

published 2010-06-30 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2184

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.3%
EPSS 14.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with crafted Flash content, involving the newfunction (0x44) operator and an "invalid pointer vulnerability" that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1285 and CVE-2010-2201.

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.3.3-2.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.3.3-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.3.3-2.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.3.3-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0503

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2168 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB10-15)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 9.3.3-2.el4, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 9.3.3-2.el4, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.3.3-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 9.3.3-2.el4, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-2.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.3.3-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 9.3.3-2.el4, acroread-plugin 9.3.3-2.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0503

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-15086)

Exploit prediction

14.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-15086 Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash - 'newfunction' Remote Code Execution dos, 2010-09-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.