Adobe Reader and Acrobat Compact Font Format Heap Memory Corruption

03 November 2009
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Adobe Reader and Acrobat are applications for handling PDF files. The applications are exposed to a heap based memory corruption issue that occurs when handling PDF files containing a malformed Compact Font Format stream when using a trusted 16-bit value to index into an array. Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions earlier than 7.1.4, 8.1.7, and 9.2 are affected by this issue.

Ref: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270669-1

09.44.30 - CVE: CVE-2009-2985
Platform: Cross Platform