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Secunia Advisory SA41340

Adobe Reader / Acrobat Font Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA41340
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Release Date 2010-09-08
Last Update 2010-09-09
   
Popularity 5,744 views
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Adobe Acrobat 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 9.x
Adobe Reader 8.x
Adobe Reader 9.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-2883 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Reader, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the font parsing in CoolType.dll and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF file.

The vulnerability is confirmed in versions 8.2.4 and 9.3.4. Other versions may also be affected.

NOTE: The vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

Solution
Do not open untrusted files.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported as a 0-day.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html

contagio:
http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2010/09/cve-david-leadbetters-one-point-lesson.html

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