HTTP: Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF Catalog Handling Vulnerability

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against multiple products that parse the Portable Document Format (PDF). Attackers can craft a malicious document that can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the victim host.

Extended Description

Multiple PDF readers are prone to multiple remote buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the applications fail to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer. An attacker may be able exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. In some circumstances, the vulnerability can be exploited only to cause a denial of service.

Affected Products

Adobe acrobat_reader_(unix)

References

CVE: CVE-2007-0104

URL: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html

Short Name

HTTP:STC:ADOBE:PDF-CATALOG

Severity

Major

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

Drop

HTTP: Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF Catalog Handling Vulnerability

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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