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Adobe Acrobat PDF File Denial Of Service Vulnerability

🗓️ 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AGType 
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Adobe Acrobat PDF File Denial Of Service Vulnerabilit

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801104");
  script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-12 05:38:45 +0000 (Fri, 12 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-10-06 07:21:15 +0200 (Tue, 06 Oct 2009)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3431");
  script_name("Adobe Acrobat PDF File Denial Of Service Vulnerability");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.security-database.com/detail.php?alert=CVE-2009-3431");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35148");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("secpod_adobe_prdts_detect_win.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Adobe/Acrobat/Win/Installed");
  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful attacks results in Denial of Service.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Adobe Acrobat version 9.1.1 and prior on Windows.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A Stack consumption error exists when handling a PDF file containing a large
  number of '[' characters to the alert method.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Adobe Acrobat version 9.1.2 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if( version_is_less_equal( version:vers, test_version:"9.1.1" ) ) {
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"9.1.2", install_path:path );
  security_message( port:0, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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12 Sep 2025 00:00Current
6.5Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.5
CVSS 25
EPSS0.21597
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