CVE-2004-0631: Adobe Acrobat Reader

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.5 only; version 5.0.6 only

Published 2004-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.