Andrew Berges

Configuration Manager, Security, and other musings from a self-confessed IT geek.

MOAB-06-01-2007: Multiple Vendor PDF Document Catalog Handling Vulnerability

The current PDF specification is affected by a design flaw: a rogue Pages entry or malicious catalog dictionary could cause a denial of service (memory corruption condition, memory leakage, etc) or potential arbitrary code execution in the reader application.
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One of those issues you "can't" find with so-called fuzzing, but instead reading the format specification... KIBO. Tomorrow is Digest Day, stay tuned for the hate e-mail, hilarious comments, feedback and drama.

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