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CVE-2009-3431

N/A

Published: September 25, 2009 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorAcrobat ReaderAcrobat

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 22%

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3, 9.1.2, 9.1.1, and earlier 9.x versions; 8.1.6 and earlier 8.x versions; and possibly 7.1.4 and earlier 7.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Acrobat · Adobe

95%

7.0 7.0.1 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9 7.1 7.1.0 7.1.1 8.0 8.1 8.1.1 8.1.2 8.1.2 security_update 8.1.3 8.1.4 9 9.0 9.0.0 9.1

Acrobat Reader · Adobe

95%

7.0 7.0.1 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9 7.1 7.1.1 8.0 8.1 8.1.1 8.1.2 8.1.2 security_update 8.1.3 8.1.4 8.1.5 9 9.1 9.1.1 9.1.2 9.1.3

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898

References (6)

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35148

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898

VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Source: [email protected]

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6532

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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