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Adobe Reader Javascript Methods Memory Corruption

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Adobe Reader Javascript Methods Memory Corruption

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/27/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/01/2009
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1 and earlier. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. A second vulnerability has also been reported that appears to affect Adobe Reader for Unix only (CVE-2009-1493).

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