A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system with Internet Explorer 7 installed. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing a specially crafted "mailto:" link, which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by pdp.
ChangeLog
2007-10-08 : Initial release
2007-10-22 : Updated Solution
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