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Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Command Injection and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA12285  
Release Date: 2004-08-13

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-0630 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2004-0631 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Greg MacManus has reported two vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An input validation error within the "uudecoding" feature allows injection of arbitrary shell commands. This can be exploited via a malicious PDF document with a specially crafted filename containing backtick shell metacharacters.

2) A boundary error within the "uudecoding" feature can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a malicious PDF document with an overly long filename.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that a user is tricked into opening a malicious document.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 5.05 and 5.06 for UNIX. Other versions may also be affected.

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Version 5.09 for UNIX is not vulnerable.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Greg MacManus, iDEFENSE Labs.

Original Advisory:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=124&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=125&type=vulnerabilities



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