9.3 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.975 High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%
Added: 03/22/2010
CVE: CVE-2010-0188
BID: 38195
OSVDB: 62526
Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents.
A stack buffer overflow vulnerability allows command execution when a user opens a PDF file with an embedded TIFF image that has one of several fields encoded as a short integer with an overly long data count field.
Upgrade to Adobe Reader 8.x version greater than 8.2.1 or 9.x version greater than 9.3.1.
<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-07.html>
Exploit works on Adobe Reader 9.3 and requires a user to open the exploit file in Adobe Reader. The vulnerability is triggered when the file is closed.
It may take relatively longer time to establish a shell session as this exploit needs to search the memory to find the shell code.
Windows