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PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool Field Name Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA20233
Release Date: 2006-05-24
Popularity: 6,065 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2549


Description:
George D. Gal has reported a vulnerability in PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool, 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 handling of form field names. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long field name, supplied either via a malicious control file or via the command line.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.0 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in version 3.1.0.12 released on 2006-05-10.

Provided and/or discovered by:
George D. Gal, Virtual Security Research.

Original Advisory:
Virtual Security Research, LLC:
http://www.vsecurity.com/bulletins/advisories/2006/pdf-form-filling.txt


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