A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an unspecified input validation error in a JavaScript method, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document.
Note: There are reports that this issue is being exploited in the wild.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Information Security Team (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).
ChangeLog
2008-06-24 : Initial release
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