---
id: 4082
title: "CVE Digest for January and February 2021: Buffer Overflows Take the Spotlight"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/cve-digest-for-february-and-january-2021"
published_at: "2021-03-01T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["zero-day", "cve", "patching", "buffer-overflow", "vulnerability-digest", "cve-2021-21017", "cve-2021-1732"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4082"
lang: en
---

# CVE Digest for January and February 2021: Buffer Overflows Take the Spotlight

## Summary

A January-February 2021 CVE digest where buffer overflows take the spotlight: the actively exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader flaw CVE-2021-21017 and Windows Win32k zero-day CVE-2021-1732.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/cve-digest-for-february-and-january-2021
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4082