CVE-2009-3431 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-3431

Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3, 9.1.2,...

Vulnerability Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3, 9.1.2, 9.1.1, and earlier 9.x versions; 8.1.6 and earlier 8.x versions; and possibly 7.1.4 and earlier 7.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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, 9.1.2, 9.1.3

Timeline

Official Publish: September 25th, 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.