Secunia Advisory SA30832

Adobe Reader/Acrobat JavaScript Method Handling Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA30832
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Release Date 2008-06-24
Last Update 2008-07-18
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 7.x
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 8.x
Adobe Reader 7.x
Adobe Reader 8.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-2641 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the implementation of an unspecified JavaScript method and can be exploited to cause a crash or potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted PDF file.

NOTE: The vulnerability is reportedly being exploited in the wild.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products and versions:
* Adobe Reader versions 8.0 through 8.1.2
* Adobe Reader versions 7.0.9 and earlier
* Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard versions 8.0 through 8.1.2
* Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard versions 7.0.9 and earlier

Solution
Adobe Reader 8 for Windows:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits the Information Security Team of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Adobe APSB08-15:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-15.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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