CVE-2014-9161

critical
Published 2015-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
9.3

Description

CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.13 and 11.x before 11.0.10 on Windows, and 10.x through 10.1.13 and 11.x through 11.0.10 on OS X, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@adobe.com — https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb15-10.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.13
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.10
adobeacrobat10.0
adobeacrobat10.0.1
adobeacrobat10.0.2
adobeacrobat10.0.3
adobeacrobat10.1
adobeacrobat10.1.1
adobeacrobat10.1.2
adobeacrobat10.1.3
adobeacrobat10.1.4
adobeacrobat10.1.5
adobeacrobat10.1.6
adobeacrobat10.1.7
adobeacrobat10.1.8
adobeacrobat10.1.9
adobeacrobat10.1.10
adobeacrobat10.1.11
adobeacrobat10.1.12
adobeacrobat11.0
adobeacrobat11.0.1
adobeacrobat11.0.2
adobeacrobat11.0.3
adobeacrobat11.0.4
adobeacrobat11.0.5
adobeacrobat11.0.6
adobeacrobat11.0.7
adobeacrobat11.0.8
adobeacrobat11.0.9
adobeacrobat10.1.13
adobeacrobat11.0.10
adobeacrobat_reader10.0
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.2
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.3
adobeacrobat_reader10.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.2
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.3
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.4
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.5
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.6
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.7
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.8
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.9
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.10
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.11
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.12
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.0
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.01
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.02
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.03
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.04
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.05
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.06
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.07
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.08
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.09

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.