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Adobe Collab.getIcon() Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Mar 24, 2009
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.
Affected versions include crafted pdf that a contains malformed Collab.getIcon() call, an attacker may
be able to execute arbitrary code.

Authors

MC [email protected]
Didier Stevens [email protected]
jduck [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_geticon
    msf exploit(adobe_geticon) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(adobe_geticon) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(adobe_geticon) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(adobe_geticon) > exploit
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