Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 5.0 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 5.0 (Document Reader Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 and earlier, and before 7.1.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf.

The bug was discovered 05/29/2008. The weakness was shared 06/04/2008 by securfrog (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-2549 since 06/04/2008. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34695 (Adobe Reader < 8.1.3 / 9.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116027 (Adobe Acrobat/Reader "util.printf()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (APSB08-19)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 6 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42886), Tenable (34695) and Exploit-DB (5687). The entries 3863, 42470, 45323 and 44870 are related to this item.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 34695
Nessus Name: Adobe Reader < 8.1.3 / 9.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 800051
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities - Nov08 (Linux)
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Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: securfrog
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-2549 (🔍)
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X-Force: 42886
SecurityTracker: 1021140
Vulnerability Center: 19946 - Adobe Acrobat Reader < 8.1.3 Remote DoS and Code Execution via a Crafted PDF File, Medium
SecurityFocus: 29420 - Adobe Reader Unspecified Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 32700
OSVDB: 46211 - CVE-2008-2549 - Adobe - Acrobat Reader - Denial-Of-Service Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-3001

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/20/2019 12:26
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (79), 08/20/2019 12:26 (14)
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