CVE-2003-0508

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in the WWWLaunchNetscape function of Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 5.0.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .pdf file with a long mailto link.

Buffer overflow in the WWWLaunchNetscape function of Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 5.0.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .pdf file with a long mailto link.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 21 years ago

2003-08-07 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:34:00

Affected Software

Adobe Acrobat Reader

References

20030701 [sec-labs] Adobe Acrobat Reader <=5.0.7 Buffer Overflow

20030709 Acroread 5.0.7 buffer overflow

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