Adobe Acrobat up to 10.0.3 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat. It has been rated as critical. This impacts an unknown function. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2011-2106. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat (Document Reader Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect 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 Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was published 06/16/2011 by James Quirk (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-2106 since 05/13/2011. 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.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 55421 (Adobe Reader < 10.1 / 9.4.5 / 8.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-12, APSB11-12, APSB11-16) (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (68020), Tenable (55421), SecurityFocus (BID 48249†), OSVDB (73068†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1025658†). Similar entries are available at VDB-57735, VDB-57734, VDB-57733 and VDB-57732. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 55421
Nessus Name: Adobe Reader < 10.1 / 9.4.5 / 8.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB11-12, APSB11-12, APSB11-16) (Mac OS X)
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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: James Quirk
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-2106 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-2106
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57715

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X-Force: 68020
SecurityFocus: 48249 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader CVE-2011-2106 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
OSVDB: 73068
SecurityTracker: 1025658
Vulnerability Center: 31827 - [APSB11-16] Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 8.x, 9.x and 10.x for Mac Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability, Medium

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 10/17/2018 08:55
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (72), 10/17/2018 08:55 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:14A:103

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