The Bitmap parsing component in 2d.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image with crafted (1) height and (2) width values for an RLE_8 compressed bitmap, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0598, CVE-2011-0599, and CVE-2011-0602.
CVE-2011-0596 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 4 products from adobe, from apple, from microsoft and 1 other, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2011, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2011-02-10T18:00:58.677
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
8.6
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.5 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.6 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.1.7 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.2.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.2.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.2.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 8.2.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.0 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.3.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.3.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.3.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.3.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 9.4.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat_reader | 10.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | apple | mac_os_x | * | No |
| Operating System | microsoft | windows | * | No |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.5 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.6 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.1.7 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.2.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.2.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.2.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 8.2.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.0 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.3.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.3.2 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.3.3 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.3.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.4 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 9.4.1 | Yes |
| Application | adobe | acrobat | 10.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | apple | mac_os_x | * | No |
| Operating System | microsoft | windows | * | No |
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