Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 11.0.18/15.006.30244/15.020.20042 Image Conversion Engine JPEG Image memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 11.0.18/15.006.30244/15.020.20042. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Image Conversion Engine. The manipulation as part of JPEG Image leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-2964. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Adobe Acrobat Reader up to 11.0.18/15.006.30244/15.020.20042 (Document Reader Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Image Conversion Engine. The manipulation as part of a JPEG Image 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 Acrobat Reader versions 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image conversion engine, related to the parsing of JPEG EXIF metadata. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

The bug was discovered 01/10/2017. The weakness was published 01/05/2017 by Ke Liu (Basti) with Zero Day Initiative as APSB17-01 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared at helpx.adobe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-2964 since 12/02/2016. 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 96455 (Adobe Reader < 11.0.19 / 15.006.30279 / 15.023.20053 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-01) (macOS)), 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 370277 (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-01)).

Upgrading 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 (96455) and SecurityFocus (BID 95345†). Similar entries are available at VDB-95140, VDB-95141, VDB-95142 and VDB-95143. 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: 96455
Nessus Name: Adobe Reader < 11.0.19 / 15.006.30279 / 15.023.20053 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-01) (macOS)
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OpenVAS ID: 103337
OpenVAS Name: Adobe Acrobat Security Updates(apsb17-01)-Windows
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: APSB17-01
Researcher: Ke Liu (Basti)
Organization: Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-2964 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-2964
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-95165

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SecurityFocus: 95345 - Adobe Acrobat and Reader APSB17-01 Multiple Unspecified Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-2964 - Adobe - Multiple Products - Memory Corruption Issue
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/11/2017 09:43
Updated: 09/01/2024 15:24
Changes: 01/11/2017 09:43 (81), 08/26/2020 09:23 (3), 10/28/2022 10:45 (3), 09/01/2024 15:24 (16)
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