CVE-2009-2981

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-10-13
Bugzilla:
528666: CVE-2009-2981 acroread: Trust Manager restrictions bypass fixed in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 do not properly validate input, which might allow attackers to bypass intended Trust Manager restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2009-2981 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (acroread) RHSA-2009:1499 2009-10-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2009:1499 2009-10-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2009:1499 2009-10-14

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