Description
The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by Adobe Acrobat before 8.0.0, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service (infinite loop), arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a (1) crafted catalog dictionary or (2) a crafted Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Multiple PDF Readers - Multiple Remote Buffer Overflows EDB-29399 · dos · Jan 6, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- TA07-072A third-party-advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- multiple-vendor-pdf-code-execution(31364) vdb-entry
- 21910 vdb-entry
- 1017749 vdb-entry
- http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html
- ADV-2007-0930 vdb-entry
- 24479 third-party-advisory