Coronavirus ‘Financial Relief’ Phishing Attacks Spike

Researchers are warning of an upward surge in social-engineering lures in malicious emails that promise victims financial relief during the coronavirus pandemic. The slew of campaigns piggy-back on news of governments mulling financial relief packages, in response to the economic stall brought on...

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID20194: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on December 20, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 42798 First Published: 2015 December 21 15:26 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID20194 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID13950: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on March 11, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 37831 First Published: 2015 March 11 13:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID13950 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

CVE-2006-4273

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Jelsoft vBulletin 3.5.4 and 3.6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an attachment with a .pdf extension that contains JavaScript, which is processed as script by Microsoft Internet Explorer 6...

Adobe Acrobat Reader for UNIX contains a buffer overflow in mailListIsPdf()

Overview A buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat Reader for UNIX could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Adobe Acrobat Reader is an application that allows users to view PDF Portable Document Format files. Acrobat Reader for UNIX Linux, Sun Solaris SPARC, IBM AIX, or HP-UX...

CVE-2004-1152

Buffer overflow in the mailListIsPdf function in Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.09 for Unix allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with a crafted PDF attachment...

CVE-2004-1152

CVE-2004-1152 : A buffer overflow in the mailListIsPdf function of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.09 for UNIX allows remote code execution via a crafted PDF in an email attachment. The issue arises from unsafe string handling (strcat) into a fixed buffer while analyzing email messages, enabling arbitrary...

GLSA-200412-12 : Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200412-12 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability A buffer overflow has been discovered in the email processing of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This flaw exists in the mailListIsPdf function, which checks if the input file is...