Adobe Acrobat up to 10.0.3 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat (Document Reader Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.3, 9.x before 9.4.5, and 10.x before 10.1 on Windows and Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2099.

The weakness was disclosed 06/16/2011 by Rodrigo Rubira Branco (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-2098 since 05/13/2011. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55143 (Adobe Acrobat < 10.1 / 9.4.5 / 8.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-16)), 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 119076 (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Update (APSB11-16)).

Upgrading to version 9.4.4 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 11631.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (55143). The entries 57735, 57734, 57733 and 57732 are pretty similar.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Nessus ID: 55143
Nessus Name: Adobe Acrobat < 10.1 / 9.4.5 / 8.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-16)
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OpenVAS ID: 802110
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities June-2011 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Acrobat 9.4.4
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Rodrigo Rubira Branco
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-2098 (🔍)
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X-Force: 68012
SecurityTracker: 1025658
Vulnerability Center: 31795 - [APSB11-16] Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 48245 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader CVE-2011-2098 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
OSVDB: 73059

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 11/13/2021 08:25
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (73), 10/17/2018 08:53 (12), 11/13/2021 08:22 (3), 11/13/2021 08:25 (1)
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