HTTP: Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader JBIG2Decode Overflow

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. An attacker can create a malicious Web site with Web pages containing dangerous PDF documents, which if accessed by a victim, allows the attacker to gain control of the victim's computer.

Extended Description

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application or crash the application, denying service to legitimate users. The issue affects Reader and Acrobat 9, 8.1.3 and prior, and 7. UPDATE (February 24, 2009): Further reports suggest that this issue affects the vulnerable applications running on Apple Mac OS X and various Linux-based operating systems.

Affected Products

Nortel_networks self-service_speech_server,Adobe acrobat_professional

References

BugTraq: 33751

CVE: CVE-2009-0658

URL: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/905281 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html

Short Name

HTTP:STC:ADOBE:PDF-JBIG2DECODE

Severity

Major

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

Drop

HTTP: Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader JBIG2Decode Overflow

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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