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Adobe Reader / Acrobat AcroPDF ActiveX Control Bugs Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23138  
Release Date: 2006-11-30
Last Update: 2006-12-06

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Adobe Acrobat 7.x
Adobe Reader 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6027 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-6236 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some bugs have been discovered in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which may cause an included ActiveX control to crash.

The bugs are caused due to errors in the AcroPDF ActiveX control (AcroPDF.dll) when processing arbitrary arguments passed to the "setPageMode()", "setLayoutMode()", "setNamedDest()", and "LoadFile()" methods.

NOTE: Secunia has currently decided to treat these issues as crash bugs as further internal research and dialogue with the vendor indicates that no risk of potential remote code execution currently has been proven.

The bugs are confirmed in Adobe Reader 7.0.5 and 7.0.8 for Windows. They have also been reported in Adobe Reader 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 and Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 on the Windows platform. Prior versions may also be affected.

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Solution:
Upgrade to version 8 or update to the latest version (see vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally reported in the "LoadFile()" method by Michal Bucko (sapheal), hack.pl.
Other bugs reported by FrSIRT.

Changelog:
2006-11-30: Updated advisory with information that WSF files are not required.
2006-12-01: Added link to US-CERT.
2006-12-04: Added CVE reference.
2006-12-06: Updated "Solution Status", "Solution", and "Original Advisory" sections to include new information from the vendor.

Original Advisory:
Adobe Systems:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-20.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#198908:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/198908

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Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

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