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Secunia Advisory SA41340

Adobe Reader / Acrobat SING "uniqueName" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA41340

Release Date

2010-09-08

Last Update

2010-10-06

Popularity

59,594 views

Comments

5 comments

Criticality level

Extremely critical

Impact

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

Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-2883 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within CoolType.dll when processing the "uniqueName" entry of SING tables in fonts and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a malicious PDF file containing a specially crafted embedded font.

The vulnerability is reported in version 8.2.4 (confirmed) and prior and version 9.3.4 (confirmed) and prior.

NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

Solution
Update to version 8.2.5 and 9.4.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported as a 0-day.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html

contagio:
http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2010/09/cve-david-leadbetters-one-point-lesson.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Technical Analysis
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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RE: Adobe Reader / Acrobat SING "uniqueName" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

16th Sep, 2010 20:32

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Adobe and Microsoft recommend using this procedure to prevent the vulnerability being exploited.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/09/10/...

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