CVE-2008-5409
BitDefender Antivirus - Denial of Service via Crafted PDF File
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-5409. PoCs published by ProTeuS.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a denial-of-service (DoS) or infinite loop in BitDefender's PDF engine by leveraging malformed compressed streams with specific compression options (/FlateDecode /ASCIIHexDecode) and a /JavaScript object tag. The vulnerability arises during parsing, leading to access violations or arithmetic register corruption.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the pdf.xmd module in (1) BitDefender Free Edition 10 and Antivirus Standard 10, (2) BullGuard Internet Security 8.5, and (3) Software602 Groupware Server 6.0.08.1118 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, possibly related to included compressed streams that were processed with the ASCIIHexDecode filter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Exploits (1)
This exploit triggers a denial-of-service (DoS) or infinite loop in BitDefender's PDF engine by leveraging malformed compressed streams with specific compression options (/FlateDecode /ASCIIHexDecode) and a /JavaScript object tag. The vulnerability arises during parsing, leading to access violations or arithmetic register corruption.