Archive for March, 2009

Adobe Reader and Acrobat JBIG2 Processing Multiple Vulnerabilities

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Description: Adobe Acrobat is a program designed to create, manage and view Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Reader is designed to only view and print PDF’s. Both Adobe Acrobat and Reader have buffer overflow vulnerabilities while handling JBIG2 streams inside a PDF file. JBIG2 is an image encoding standard for encoding bi-level images. One [...]

Microsoft Buffer Overflow Vulnerability on Graphical Device Interface GDIPlus EMF

Friday, March 27th, 2009

There is a Critical Microsoft vulnerability discovered these days affecting almost all windows versions: Description: Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is an application programming interface by Microsoft Windows. It’s a core operating system component responsible for representing graphical objects. Microsoft Windows GDI has integer overflow vulnerability in gdiplus.dll while processing Enhanced Metafile (EMF) files. Possible vectors [...]