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>> Adobe Reader and Acrobat ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
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Title : Adobe Reader and Acrobat ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4751
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6027 - CVE-2006-6236
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-28
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These flaws are due to memory corruption errors in the AcroPDF ActiveX control (AcroPDF.dll) that does not properly handle malformed arguments passed to the "setPageMode()", "setLayoutMode()", "setNamedDest()", and "LoadFile()" methods, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page with Internet Explorer [...]
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4751
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-20.html
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by FrSIRT
ChangeLog
2006-11-28 : Initial release
2006-12-06 : Updated Solution
Vulnerability Management
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