Adobe Acrobat And Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6966)
Publish date: October 20, 2016
Severity: CRITICAL
DESCRIPTION
Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to an unspecified memory corruption vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service states.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1007998
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