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CVE-2004-0631

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the uudecoding feature for Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 and 5.0.6 for Unix and Linux, and possibly other versions including those before 5.0.9, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename for the PDF file that is provided to the uudecode command.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat Reader: 5.0, 5.0.5, 5.0.6

References

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-14.xml
• http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322914.html
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=125&type=vulnerabilities
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-432.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10932
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16972
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-14.xml
• http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/322914.html
• http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=125&type=vulnerabilities
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-432.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10932
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16972

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