Denial of service in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader - CVE-2009-3431

Vulnerability identifier: #VU2669

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3431

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS conditions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to stack consumption when handling malformed documents. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory  cause the affected application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in denial of service on the vulnerable system.

Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Reader
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Update Adobe Reader for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX to version 9.2:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Macintosh
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix
Update Adobe Acrobat for Windows and Macintosh to version 9.2:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=158&platform=Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=112&platform=Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Macintosh

• Exploit #638 - Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 - Stack Exhaustion Denial of Service (March 18, 2020)

• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat
• Gentoo update for Adobe Reader
• openSUSE update for flash-player
• Red Hat update for acroread