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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2009-0658 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Adobe Reader 9.0 and earlier, and Acrobat 9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a craft…

published 2009-02-20 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0661

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
87.8%
EPSS 87.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
5
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Adobe Reader 9.0 and earlier, and Acrobat 9.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, related to a non-JavaScript function call and possibly an embedded JBIG2 image stream, as exploited in the wild in February 2009 by Trojan.Pidief.E.

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1
  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.4-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0376

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-0658 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: multiple JBIG2-related security flaws

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1 Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.4-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.4-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.4-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.4-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0376

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/adobe_jbig2decode)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

87.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.