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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0103

Original release date:01/09/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by Adobe Acrobat before 8.0.0, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service (infinite loop), arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a (1) crafted catalog dictionary or (2) a crafted Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/09/2008)

Some implementations of the PDF specification erroneously allow page tree objects that refer back to themselves. As a result, an infinite loop could be created. We believe this could only result in a denial of service against the application. We do not consider a user-assisted DoS of a client application to be a security issue.

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-072A

Name: TA07-072A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

External Source: XF

Name: multiple-vendor-pdf-code-execution(31364)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31364

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017749

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017749

External Source: BID

Name: 21910

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21910