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Adobe Acrobat Reader UnixAppOpenFilePerform Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA15934
Release Date: 2005-07-06
Popularity: 15,375 views

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

Software:Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-1625


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in "UnixAppOpenFilePerform()" when Acrobat Reader is opening a document containing a "/Filespec" tag. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Acrobat Reader by tricking the user to open a specially crafted PDF document.

The vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader for Unix version 5.0.9 and 5.0.10.

Solution:
-- Linux and Solaris Platforms --
Update to Adobe Reader 7.0

-- IBM-AIX and HP-UX Platforms --
Update to Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.11

Provided and/or discovered by:
iDEFENSE

Original Advisory:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329083.html

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=279&type=vulnerabilities


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