Adobe Acrobat util.printf JavaScript function buffer overflow

Added: 11/10/2008
CVE: CVE-2008-2992
BID: 30035
OSVDB: 49520

Background

Adobe Acrobat is software for creating PDF documents.

Problem

A buffer overflow vulnerability allows command execution when a user opens a PDF file which calls the **util.printf** JavaScript function with a specially crafted format string argument.

Resolution

Upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 8.1.3 or higher.

References

<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html&gt;
<http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-072/&gt;

Limitations

Exploit works on Adobe Acrobat 8.0 through 8.1.2 and requires a user to open the exploit file in Adobe Acrobat.

This exploit requires the Compress-Zlib PERL module. This module is available from cpan.org.

Platforms

Windows