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HistoryApr 13, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

Adobe Reader TrueType Font Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2010-04-1300:00:00
Anonymous
www.zerodayinitiative.com
21

EPSS

0.08

Percentile

94.3%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader. User interaction is required in that the victim must be coerced into opening a malicious document or visiting a malicious URL. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of embedded fonts inside a PDF document. Upon parsing particular tables out of a font file the application will miscalculate an index used for seeking into a buffer. Later the application will begin to copy data into the calculated pointer corrupting the referenced data structure. Successful exploitation will lead to code execution under the context of the application.