Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader due to a large no of open square brackets(Linux)ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:18673 | Date: (C)2014-05-26 (M)2022-03-23 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
The host is installed with Adobe Reader before 8.1.7 or 9.x before 9.2 and is prone to a stack consumption vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle a PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to crash the service.