Acrobat and Adobe Reader Plug-in Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Filed in: Security — August 18th, 2005A highly critical buffer overflow vulnerability found in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Updates to latest version to patch the flaw.
A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified boundary error in the core application plug-in and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
[ Read | Adobe Security Advisory ]
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