Adobe Acrobat Reader prior 9.0 input validation

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Document Reader Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 10/06/2010 by Ricardo Narvaja with CORE Security Technologies (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-3627 since 09/28/2010. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 49172 (Adobe Acrobat < 9.4 / 8.2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB10-21)), 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 165612 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update acroread (SUSE-SA:2010:048)).

Upgrading to version 9.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (49172). The entries 4175, 54940, 54939 and 54938 are pretty similar.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 49172
Nessus Name: Adobe Acrobat < 9.4 / 8.2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB10-21)
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OpenVAS ID: 801524
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities -Oct10 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Acrobat Reader 9.0

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09/09/2010 🔍
09/13/2010 +4 days 🔍
09/28/2010 +15 days 🔍
10/05/2010 +7 days 🔍
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03/19/2015 +1625 days 🔍
09/26/2021 +2383 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: RHSA-2010:0743
Researcher: Ricardo Narvaja
Organization: CORE Security Technologies
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-3627 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 27446 - [APSB10-21] Adobe Acrobat and Reader Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability through a Crafted PDF File, Medium
SecurityFocus: 43746 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader Thumbnails Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 43025
Vupen: ADV-2011-0191

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Created: 03/19/2015 14:37
Updated: 09/26/2021 09:24
Changes: 03/19/2015 14:37 (69), 10/16/2018 09:12 (9), 09/26/2021 09:24 (3)
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