CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2979

Published: Oct 19, 2009 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.2, 8.x before 8.1.7, and possibly 7.x through 7.1.4 do not properly perform XMP-XML entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted document.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
AcrobatAdobe*9.1.3 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.1 (including)7.0.1 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.2 (including)7.0.2 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.3 (including)7.0.3 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.4 (including)7.0.4 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.5 (including)7.0.5 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.6 (including)7.0.6 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.7 (including)7.0.7 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.8 (including)7.0.8 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.0.9 (including)7.0.9 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.1.0 (including)7.1.0 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.1.1 (including)7.1.1 (including)
AcrobatAdobe7.1.3 (including)7.1.3 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.0 (including)8.0 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1 (including)8.1 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1.1 (including)8.1.1 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1.2 (including)8.1.2 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1.3 (including)8.1.3 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1.4 (including)8.1.4 (including)
AcrobatAdobe8.1.6 (including)8.1.6 (including)
AcrobatAdobe9.0 (including)9.0 (including)
AcrobatAdobe9.1.1 (including)9.1.1 (including)
AcrobatAdobe9.1.2 (including)9.1.2 (including)
Extras for RHEL 3RedHatacroread-0:8.1.7-1*
Extras for RHEL 4RedHatacroread-0:8.1.7-1.el4*
Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatacroread-0:8.1.7-1.el5*
AcroreadUbuntudapper*
AcroreadUbuntudevel*
AcroreadUbuntuhardy*
AcroreadUbuntuintrepid*
AcroreadUbuntujaunty*
AcroreadUbuntukarmic*
AcroreadUbuntuupstream*

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