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Secunia Advisory SA34924

Adobe Reader JavaScript Methods Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory SA34924
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2009-04-28
Last Update 2009-05-13
   
Popularity 31,469 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
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Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Partial Fix
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
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3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
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Software:
Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 7.x
Adobe Acrobat 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 9.x
Adobe Reader 7.x
Adobe Reader 8.x
Adobe Reader 9.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1492 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-1493 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Arr1val has discovered two vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An error when processing calls to the "getAnnots()" JavaScript method can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PDF file.

2) An error when processing calls to the "customDictionaryOpen()" JavaScript method can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted PDF file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 9.1 for Linux. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to a fixed version. Please see the vendor's advisory for more information.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
Arr1val

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Arr1val:
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0904-exploits/spell.txt
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0904-exploits/getannots.txt

Adobe:
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/04/update_on_adobe_reader_issue.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-02.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html

Other references
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