CVE-2008-4812

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2008-11-04
Bugzilla:
469875: CVE-2008-4812 Adobe Reader: embedded font handling out-of-bounds array indexing

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Array index error in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and the Explorer extension (aka AcroRd32Info), 8.1.2, 8.1.1, and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers an out-of-bounds write, related to parsing of Type 1 fonts.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4812 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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