CVE-2007-1377 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Adobe Reader via Firefox by crafting a malicious PDF URL with excessive format string sequences.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-1377?
CVE-2007-1377 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader, published on 10 Mar 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
AcroPDF.DLL in Adobe Reader 8.0, when accessed from Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspecified resource consumption) via a .pdf URL with an anchor identifier that begins with search= followed by many %n sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6027 and CVE-2006-6236.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1377?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Adobe Acrobat Reader, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Opera Opera Browser.
How do I fix CVE-2007-1377?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-1377 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-1377 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-1377 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jcvx-wgg4-cc84.