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Adobe Acrobat and Reader Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerability |
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| Threat Type: | IntelliShield: Security Activity Bulletin |
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| IntelliShield ID: | 18110 |
| Version: | 1 |
| First Published: | May 01, 2009 09:57 AM EDT |
| Last Published: | May 01, 2009 09:57 AM EDT |
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| BugTraq ID: | 34768 |
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| Urgency: |
Unlikely Use
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| Credibility: |
Corroborated
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| Severity: |
Moderate Damage
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| Version Summary: | Adobe Acrobat and Reader contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user. Updates are not available. |
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Description |
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Adobe Acrobat and Reader contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the targeted user.
This vulnerability was announced at a security conference in April 2009, and little technical detail is available to describe the flaw.
An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit the software flaw to cause memory corruption, which could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability may be similar to recently released Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities, such as those that are described in IntelliShield alerts 17665 and 17872.
No exploit code is not known to exist.
Adobe has not confirmed this vulnerability, and no updates are available. |
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The security vulnerability applies to the following combinations of products.
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