CVE-2009-3431

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2009-10-13
Bugzilla:
528665: CVE-2009-2979 CVE-2009-2988 CVE-2009-3431 acroread: Multiple DoS fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3, 9.1.2, 9.1.1, and earlier 9.x versions; 8.1.6 and earlier 8.x versions; and possibly 7.1.4 and earlier 7.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3431 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:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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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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