Summary
This host is installed with Adobe Reader and is prone to heap corruption Vulnerability
Impact
Successful exploitation will let attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Adobe Reader/Acrobat version 9.4.1 or later, For updates refer to http://www.adobe.com
Insight
This issue is caused by a heap corruption error in the 'EScript.api' plugin when processing the 'printSeps()' function within a PDF document.
Affected
Adobe Reader version 8.x to 8.1.7 and 9.x before 9.4.1 on Linux
Detection
Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check the version is vulnerable or not.
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-4091 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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