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Secunia Advisory SA23138

Adobe Reader / Acrobat AcroPDF ActiveX Control Bugs
Secunia Advisory SA23138
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-11-30
Last Update 2006-12-06
   
Popularity 48,996 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
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
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
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 7.x
Adobe Reader 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-6027 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-6236 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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.


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
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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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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