Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 8.2.4 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2011-0605. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Document Reader Software). Affected by this issue is 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. CVE summarizes:

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was presented 02/10/2011 by Marc Schoenefeld (Website). The advisory is shared for download at adobe.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-0605. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 57745 (GLSA-201201-19 : Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 118956 (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Update (APSB11-03)).

Upgrading to version 9.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (57745), SecurityFocus (BID 46200†), SecurityTracker (ID 1025033†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-29696†). See VDB-56469, VDB-56467, VDB-56466 and VDB-56465 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 57745
Nessus Name: GLSA-201201-19 : Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801844
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities February-2011 (Windows)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Acrobat Reader 9.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: adobe.com
Researcher: Marc Schoenefeld
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-0605 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-0605
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-56468

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X-Force: 65308
SecurityFocus: 46200 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader CVE-2011-0605 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1025033
Vulnerability Center: 29696 - [APSB11-03] Adobe Acrobat and Reader Before 9.4.2 and 10.0.1 Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/20/2015 16:16
Updated: 02/22/2025 20:35
Changes: 03/20/2015 16:16 (58), 03/15/2017 12:38 (9), 10/17/2021 01:43 (5), 10/17/2021 01:51 (1), 10/17/2021 01:59 (1), 01/20/2025 07:24 (19), 02/22/2025 20:35 (1)
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