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CVE exact
CVE_2008_2992
What it means
PDF JavaScript invokes util.printf() with an oversized format/string argument.
Why it fires
CVE-2008-2992 is a widely-exploited stack buffer overflow in Adobe Reader's util.printf JavaScript implementation. The rule matches util.printf() only when the argument contains a very long format specifier (for example %0000x with 4+ digits) or a quoted string of at least 256 bytes.
Other CVE heuristics
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