Title : Adobe Download Manager AOM File Handling Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4867 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5856
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-12-06
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Download Manager, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error when extracting download instructions from a specially crafted AOM file and reading the entries from "dm.ini", which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary binaries on a vulnerable system by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted Web page.
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