- Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 -
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Madrid, March 8 2004 - According to NGSSoftware, a security problem has been
detected which affects version 5.1 of Adobe Acrobat Reader when specially
crafted XFDF(*) documents are processed.
Due to this vulnerability, an attacker could construct a file with an .xfdf
extension which, when a user tried to view it with version 5.1 of Acrobat
Reader, could cause a buffer overflow and allow the execution of arbitrary
code.
Users of Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 are advised to update the application, by
installing one of the latest versions, available at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
(*)XFDF is a format for representing forms data and annotations in a PDF
document.

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