10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.106 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.1%
An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports:
Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow in version 5.09
of Adobe Acrobat Reader for Unix could allow for execution
of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability specifically exists in a the function
mailListIsPdf(). This function checks if the input file
is an email message containing a PDF. It unsafely copies
user supplied data using strcat into a fixed sized
buffer.