CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4817
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• adobe acrobat (<= 8.1.2)
• adobe acrobat 8.1.1
• adobe acrobat reader (<= 8.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://download.oracle.com/sunalerts/1019937.1.html download.oracle.com
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=756 labs.idefense.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://osvdb.org/49541 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32700 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32872 secunia.com
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021140 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-309A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3001 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0098 www.vupen.com
- http://download.oracle.com/sunalerts/1019937.1.html download.oracle.com
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=756 labs.idefense.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://osvdb.org/49541 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32700 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32872 secunia.com
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021140 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-309A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3001 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0098 www.vupen.com