Title : Adobe Reader Subroutine Pointer Overwrite Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0115 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5857
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-01-10
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a memory corruption error when handling malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted document.
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