Adobe Acrobat Reader prior 9.0 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes resource management. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2009-2996. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Document Reader Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2985.

The weakness was presented 10/19/2009 by Stefano Di Paola with Apple Product Security (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2009-2996 since 08/27/2009. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 42119 (Adobe Acrobat < 9.2 / 8.1.7 / 7.1.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB09-15)), 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 165657 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Acroread, acroread_ja (SUSE-SA:2009:049)).

Upgrading to version 9.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8658.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (42119), SecurityFocus (BID 36638†), SecurityTracker (ID 1023007†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-23803†). See VDB-2793, VDB-4037, VDB-4041 and VDB-4039 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 42119
Nessus Name: Adobe Acrobat < 9.2 / 8.1.7 / 7.1.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB09-15)
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OpenVAS ID: 800958
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities - Oct09 (Linux)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Acrobat Reader 9.0
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10/16/2018 +1308 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Stefano Di Paola
Organization: Apple Product Security
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-2996 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-2996
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-50503

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SecurityFocus: 36638 - RETIRED: Adobe Reader and Acrobat October 2009 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1023007
Vulnerability Center: 23803 - [APSB09-15] Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7-7.1.3, 8- 8.1.6, and 9-9.1.3 Memory Corruption and Code Execution, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2009-2898

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 10/16/2018 09:00
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (71), 10/16/2018 09:00 (13)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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