Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2013-028 |
Date Published: | 20 Jan 2013 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 20 January, 2013 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2013-0626 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A stack buffer overflow exists in Adobe Reader. The vulnerability is due to an error when parsing a specially crafted PDF file. Successful exploitation would cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information: Adobe Reader stack exhaustion code execution (APSB13-02)