Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1493

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-04-30 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:13:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The customDictionaryOpen spell method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier on Linux and UNIX allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that triggers a call to this method with a long string in the second argument.