CVE-2008-2549

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2008-05-29
Bugzilla:
450078: CVE-2008-2549 acroread: crash and possible code execution

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 and earlier, and before 7.1.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2549 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2008:0974 2008-11-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2008:0974 2008-11-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (acroread) RHSA-2008:0974 2008-11-12

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