Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2009-1493 First vendor Publication 2009-04-30
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-29

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The customDictionaryOpen spell method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier on Linux and UNIX allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that triggers a call to this method with a long string in the second argument.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1493

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22282
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22282
Title: ELSA-2009:0478: acroread security update (Critical)
Description: The customDictionaryOpen spell method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier on Linux and UNIX allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that triggers a call to this method with a long string in the second argument.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2009:0478-01
CVE-2009-1492
CVE-2009-1493
Version: 13
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): acroread
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Adobe Reader Javascript API spell.customDictonaryOpen memory corruption More info here

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-13 Name : Solaris Update for Adobe Acrobat Reader 121104-10
File : nvt/gb_solaris_121104_10.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200907-06 (acroread)
File : nvt/glsa_200907_06.nasl
2009-06-15 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:011
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_011.nasl
2009-05-25 Name : SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:027 (acroread)
File : nvt/suse_sa_2009_027.nasl
2009-05-20 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0478
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0478.nasl
2009-05-11 Name : Adobe Reader Denial of Service Vulnerability (May09)
File : nvt/gb_adobe_reader_dos_vuln_may09_lin.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
54129 Adobe Reader customDictionaryOpen() JavaScript Method PDF Handling Memory Cor...

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader spell.customDictionaryOpen exploit attempt
RuleID : 23500 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader spell.customDictionaryOpen exploit attempt
RuleID : 15492 - Revision : 15 - Type : FILE-PDF

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_acroread-6260.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_acroread_ja-6264.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_acroread-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_acroread_ja-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-28 Name : The version of Adobe Acrobat on the remote Windows host is affected by a memo...
File : adobe_acrobat_911.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0478.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_acroread-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_acroread-090519.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200907-06.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-22 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_acroread-6258.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-13 Name : The PDF file viewer on the remote Windows host is affected by a memory corrup...
File : adobe_reader_911.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34740
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133B.html
CERT-VN http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970180
CONFIRM http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/05/adobe_reader_issue_update.html
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=926953
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8570
GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-06.xml
MISC http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/04/update_on_adobe_reader_issue.html
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0904-exploits/spell.txt
OSVDB http://osvdb.org/54129
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0478.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022139
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/34924
http://secunia.com/advisories/35055
http://secunia.com/advisories/35096
http://secunia.com/advisories/35152
http://secunia.com/advisories/35358
http://secunia.com/advisories/35416
http://secunia.com/advisories/35734
SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259028-1
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1189
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1317
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50146

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