Intrusion PreventionAdobe.Reader.Unspecified.Remote.DoS
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a remote denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Reader.
The vulnerability is caused by the improper handling of PDF files. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
Affected Products
Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.5
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.10
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.11
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.6
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.7
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.9
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.2
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.3
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.4
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.5
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.2
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.3
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.4
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.5
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.6
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.7
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.8
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.9
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2
Gentoo Linux
Nortel Media Processing Server 1000
RedHat RHEL Desktop Supplementary 5 Client
RedHat RHEL Extras 3
RedHat RHEL Extras 4
RedHat RHEL Supplementary 5 Server
Sun Solaris 10 SPARC
Impact
System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Refer to the vendor's website for suggested workaround.
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 26616 |
| Created | May 05, 2011 |
| Updated | Mar 22, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2008-2549 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 29.47% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux, MacOS |
| Affected App | Adobe |