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CVE-2009-0658

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—💥 Exploit

Buffer overflow in Adobe Reader 9.0 and earlier, and Acrobat 9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, related to a non-JavaScript function call and possibly an embedded JBIG2 image stream, as exploited in the wild in February 2009 by Trojan.Pidief.E.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

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Affected technologies (2)

Adobe — AcrobatAdobe — Acrobat Reader

CWEs

References

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