{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2979 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2009-2979 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 19 Oct 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2009-2979 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2009-2979 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 19 Oct 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2979 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Adobe Acrobat. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2979/index.md)","id":"CVE-2009-2979","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2979/index.md","name":"CVE-2009-2979","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j7rw-94xq-mrc3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Adobe Reader","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Adobe Reader by tricking users into opening a crafted document with malicious XMP-XML entity expansion.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"acrobat","vendor":"adobe"},{"product":"acrobat_reader","vendor":"adobe"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.2, 8.x before 8.1.7, and possibly 7.x through 7.1.4 do not properly perform XMP-XML entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted document.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2979","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"adobe:acrobat","products":["adobe:acrobat","adobe:acrobat_reader"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2009"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2980"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-2978"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2009-10-19","related":[{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2021-28550","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-09-02"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2021-21017","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass","id":"CVE-2014-0546","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2014-08-12"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2014-0496","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2014-01-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2013-3346","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2013-08-30"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Integer Overflow","id":"CVE-2013-2729","kev_date_added":"2022-03-28","published":"2013-05-16"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2011-2462","kev_date_added":"2022-06-08","published":"2011-12-07"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Adobe Reader by tricking users into opening a crafted document with malicious XMP-XML entity expansion.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2979/"}