Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader Null pointer deference attempt detected

IPS-CFWIPS-SWG

1 SID: 160171

Detects a PDF exploiting CVE-2024-49531, a null pointer dereference in Adobe Acrobat Reader's document parsing that can crash the reader. The crafted document structure reaches an unpopulated object reference, so the impact is a denial of service rather than code execution.