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Adobe Acrobat Document Handling and Distillation Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


Title : Adobe Acrobat Document Handling and Distillation Client-Side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-2759
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3453
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-07-12

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A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Acrobat, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when distilling files to PDF, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.

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2006-07-12 : Initial release

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