CVE-2009-0198 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-0198

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JBIG2 filter in Adobe Reader...

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the JBIG2 filter in Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 before 7.1.3, Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 before 8.1.6, and Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 before 9.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that contains JBIG2 text region segments with Huffman encoding.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

acrobat, acrobat reader
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.1, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 9, 9.0, 9.0.0, 9.1, 8.1.5, 9.1.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 11th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.