Vulnerability CVE-2008-4071
Published: 2008-09-15   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Adobe Acrobat 9 ActiveX Remote Denial of Service Exploit
Jeremy Brown
17.09.2008

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Adobe -> Acrobat 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4257
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424
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