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Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Command Injection and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12285
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Release Date:
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2004-08-13
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Popularity:
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14,507 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0630
CVE-2004-0631
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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.
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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