Adobe Acrobat Reader Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Publish date: July 21, 2015
Severity: MEDIUM
CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-2549
Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015
DESCRIPTION
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 and earlier, and before 7.1.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003202
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003202 - Adobe Acrobat Reader Denial Of Service Vulnerability
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- Adobe Acrobat_Reader 3.0
- Adobe Acrobat_Reader 4.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 4.0.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 4.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.10
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.11
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.6
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.7
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.0.9
- adobe acrobat_reader 5.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0.2
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0.4
- adobe acrobat_reader 6.0.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.2
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.4
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.6
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.7
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.8
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.9
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.2
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