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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28550: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-28550: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/02/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tor

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