Vulnerability details :
 
Adobe Acrobat Reader Malformed PDF Overflow DoS 
 
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Fiche créée le 2005-04-23 05:41:16, dernière mise à jour le 2008-03-02 23:51:26

A remote overflow exists in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The application fails to perform proper bounds checking resulting in a buffer overflow. With a malformed PDF file, a remote attacker can cause the application to crash resulting in a loss of availability.



 
Adobe Systems Incorporated    6.0  Affected
 
Attack Type :  Denial of Service
 saturation flood, crash, lock up, forced reboot.
 Découvert le 2005-04-22 05:48:43
 
Attack Type :  Input Manipulation
 XSS, SQL injection, file retrieval, directory traversal, overflows, URL encoding.
 
Exploit :  Exploit Rumored
 The exploit has been mentioned but not confirmed. Proof of Concept (PoC) has been published to prove the vulnerability but does not exploit it.
 Exploit découvert le 1970-01-01 07:00:00
 
Impact :  Loss of Availability
 Assurance of timely and reliable access to data. Examples: any DoS attack of any kind, unauthorized file deletion, etc. anything that can cause the availability of a service or information to be impacted.
 
Impact :  Loss of Integrity
 Assurance that data is unaltered by unauthorized persons. Examples: XSS, arbitrary command execution, most overflows, most format strings, SQL injection, unauthorized file modification/deletion/creation, remote file inclusion, etc.
 
Location :  Remote / Network Access
 If network access if required and exploit can be done remotely.
 
 
External refs :
OSVDB  15850
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 

 

 


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