Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat
CVE-2005-2470
Buffer overflow in a "core application plug-in" for Adobe Reader 5.1 through 7.0.2 and Acrobat 5.0 through 7.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.132 (96.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.132 · newest: 0.132 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Adobe Acrobat — versions 5.0, 5.0.5, 6.0
- Adobe Acrobat Reader — versions 5.1, 6.0, 6.0.1
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-750.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21860 (vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14603 (vdb-entry)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-11.xml (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/896220 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321644.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1434 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/16466 (third-party-advisory)