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Adobe Acrobat Reader XML Forms Data Format Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11037
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Release Date:
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2004-03-04
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Last Update:
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2004-03-11
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Popularity:
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13,609 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x
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Description:
NGSSoftware has discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the debugging functionality when parsing documents in the XML forms data format (".xfdf"). This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted XFDF document.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.1 on the Windows platform. Reportedly other platforms are not vulnerable.
Solution:
The vendor reports that the vulnerability isn't present in the current version of Adobe Reader.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
David Litchfield, NGSSoftware.
Changelog:
2004-03-11: Updated description.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/adobexfdf.txt
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