National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4817

Overview

The Download Manager in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that calls an AcroJS function with a long string argument, triggering heap corruption.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-309A

Name: TA08-309A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-309A.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0098

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0098

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3001

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3001

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021140

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021140

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0974

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32872

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32872

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32700

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32700

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 49541

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/49541

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:026

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20081104 Adobe Acrobat Professional And Reader AcroJS Heap Corruption Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=756

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 249366

Hyperlink:http://download.oracle.com/sunalerts/1019937.1.html