Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when distilling files to PDF. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted file.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.0 through 6.0.4 for Windows and Macintosh.
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Solution: Update to version 6.0.5.
Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor.
Changelog: 2006-07-24: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
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