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Adobe U3D Mesh Declaration Array Overrun (CVE-2009-3953)

Credit: Felipe Andres Manzano

Adobe PDF has been a favorite target of attackers over the last year. Felipe discovered a bug in the U3D file format which affected all recent versions of Adobe Reader. Exploiting it required some very complicated heap manipulation, showing how complex exploitation really is.

(CVE-2009-3953)