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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-5409 EUVD-2008-5386GHSA-w5c9-rfx7-37rh

Unspecified vulnerability in the pdf.xmd module in (1) BitDefender Free Edition 10 and Antivirus Standard 10, (2) BullGuard Internet Securi…

Published Dec 9, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the pdf.xmd module in (1) BitDefender Free Edition 10 and Antivirus Standard 10, (2) BullGuard Internet Security 8.5, and (3) Software602 Groupware Server 6.0.08.1118 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, possibly related to included compressed streams that were processed with the ASCIIHexDecode filter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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