CVE-2008-4071 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4071?

CVE-2008-4071 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 15 Sep 2008. 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

A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an src property value with an invalid acroie:// URL.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4071?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Acrobat.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4071?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4071 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-2008-4071 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4071 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jprq-ffw9-m95p.