FortiGuard Advisory (FGA-2008-04)
Silent Print Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat/Reader A specially crafted PDF document may silently request to be printed with arbitrary frequency, causing a denial of service while wasting resources. Impact: Denial of printing service and material waste. Risk:
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Additional Information: The vulnerability exists due to a design flaw with the function "DOC.print()" available through Adobe's Javascript API. The flaw allows the interactive level of a print parameter to be set to silent, which will allow non-interactive printing. With this property set, a print dialog box will not be displayed and any amount of copies may be printed without user permission. Solutions:
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