This host is installed with Adobe Reader and is prone to heap corruption Vulnerability

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

Upgrade to Adobe Reader/Acrobat version 9.4.1 or later, For updates refer to http://www.adobe.com

This issue is caused by a heap corruption error in the 'EScript.api' plugin when processing the 'printSeps()' function within a PDF document.

Adobe Reader version 8.x to 8.1.7 and 9.x before 9.4.1 on Linux

Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check the version is vulnerable or not.

• http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2010/11/potential-issue-in-adobe-reader.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42095
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15419/
• http://www.osvdb.com/69005
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2890
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62996

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Updated on 2015-03-25