#VU1337 Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader - CVE-2007-4768

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#VU1337 Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader - CVE-2007-4768

Published: December 15, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1337
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-4768
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Reader
Software vendor:
Adobe

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library when handling of a single Unicode sequence by multiple character classes. A remote attacker can create a specially data, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

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