Rule Category

FILE-PDF -- Snort has detected suspicious traffic related to a PDF file. PDFs are easily exploitable. They include many ways to encapsulate data and are often targeted by attackers, who use the PDF's household name status for social engineering. Therefore, Snort includes Many PDF-targeted rules.

Alert Message

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader JBIG parsing out of bounds read attempt

Rule Explanation

This event is generated when out of bound read is attempted in Adobe Acrobat Reader Impact: Misc activity Details: Out of bound read is caused by the incorrect parsing of the JBIG data stream in the PDF Ease of Attack:

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Known Usage

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False Positives

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Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

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CVE

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