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Secunia Advisory SA13471

Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA13471
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2004-12-15
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Adobe Acrobat 6.x
Adobe Reader 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0597 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2004-1153 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or compromise a user's system.

1) A format string error within the eBook plug-in when parsing ".etd" files can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted eBook containing format specifiers in the "title" and "baseurl" fields.

2) Multiple vulnerabilities in libpng have been acknowledged, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA12219

3) An error within the handling of Flash files embedded in PDF documents can be exploited to read the content of files on a user's system.

For more information:
SA12809

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 6.0.0 through 6.0.2.


Solution
Update to version 6.0.3.

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

Original Advisory
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2679

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=163&type=vulnerabilities

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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