Adobe Acrobat Reader memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 11.0.22/2015.006.30355/2017.011.30066/2017.012.20098. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2017-16364. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 11.0.22/2015.006.30355/2017.011.30066/2017.012.20098 (Document Reader Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. 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 bug was discovered 11/14/2017. The weakness was presented 11/14/2017 by riusksk with Tencent as APSB17-36 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-16364 since 11/01/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 104626 (Adobe Acrobat < 11.0.23 / 2015.006.30392 / 2017.011.30068 / 2018.009.20044 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-36)), 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 370650 (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-36)).

Upgrading to version 11.0.23, 2015.006.30392, 2017.011.30068 or 2018.009.20044 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (104626), SecurityFocus (BID 101813†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1039791†). See VDB-109677, VDB-109678, VDB-109679 and VDB-109680 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 104626
Nessus Name: Adobe Acrobat < 11.0.23 / 2015.006.30392 / 2017.011.30068 / 2018.009.20044 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-36)
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OpenVAS ID: 870219
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Acrobat Security Updates(apsb17-36)-MAC OS X
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Acrobat Reader 11.0.23/2015.006.30392/2017.011.30068/2018.009.20044

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: APSB17-36
Researcher: Toan Pham Van, Ke Liu (riusksk)
Organization: Tencent
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-16364 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-16364
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109733

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SecurityFocus: 101813 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader APSB17-36 Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1039791

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Entryinfo

Created: 11/18/2017 14:26
Updated: 09/04/2024 08:33
Changes: 11/18/2017 14:26 (75), 12/09/2019 07:25 (10), 01/24/2021 20:22 (2), 01/24/2021 20:27 (1), 09/04/2024 08:33 (17)
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