fkie_cve-2009-1493
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2009-04-30 20:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
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