25902 : PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool Field Name Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
4	457	over 5 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date
2006-04-19	2006-05-23

Description

A overflow exists in PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool. The PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool fails to copy form field names to a 256 byte fixed length buffer resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause arbitary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required, Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.1.0.12 (released on 2006-05-10) or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

PDF Tools AG	PDF Form Filling and Flattening Tool	3.0
		3.1.0.12 (2006-05-10)

References

CVE ID: 2006-2549 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 20233
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-1960
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-05/0610.html
Vendor URL: http://www.pdf-tools.com/asp/products.asp?name=FF&type=shell
Other Advisory URL: http://www.vsecurity.com/bulletins/advisories/2006/pdf-form-filling.txt

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

George D. Gal - ggalvsecurity.com - Virtual Security Research, LLC.

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-05-25 | Disagree?

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