Executive Summary



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Summary
Title acroread security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2009:1109 First vendor Publication 2009-06-17
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2009-06-17
Severity (Vendor) Critical Revision 01

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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

Updated acroread packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64 RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Multiple security flaws were discovered in Adobe Reader. A specially crafted PDF file could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2009-0198, CVE-2009-0509, CVE-2009-0510, CVE-2009-0511, CVE-2009-0512, CVE-2009-0888, CVE-2009-0889, CVE-2009-1855, CVE-2009-1856, CVE-2009-1857, CVE-2009-1858, CVE-2009-1859, CVE-2009-1861, CVE-2009-2028)

All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 8.1.6, which is not vulnerable to these issues. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

505049 - acroread: multiple security fixes in version 8.1.6 (APSB09-07)

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1109.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
69 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
23 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
8 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22229
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22229
Title: ELSA-2009:1109: acroread security update (Critical)
Description: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 before 7.1.3, Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 before 8.1.6, and Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 before 9.1.2 have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "Adobe internally discovered issues."
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2009:1109-01
CVE-2009-0198
CVE-2009-0509
CVE-2009-0510
CVE-2009-0511
CVE-2009-0512
CVE-2009-0888
CVE-2009-0889
CVE-2009-1855
CVE-2009-1856
CVE-2009-1857
CVE-2009-1858
CVE-2009-1859
CVE-2009-1861
CVE-2009-2028
Version: 61
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): acroread
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 60
Application 23

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-09-09 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:014
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_014.nasl
2009-07-29 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200907-06 (acroread)
File : nvt/glsa_200907_06.nasl
2009-07-06 Name : SuSE Security Advisory SUSE-SA:2009:035 (acroread)
File : nvt/suse_sa_2009_035.nasl
2009-07-06 Name : SuSE Security Summary SUSE-SR:2009:012
File : nvt/suse_sr_2009_012.nasl
2009-06-23 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1109
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1109.nasl
2009-06-16 Name : Adobe Reader Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities - Jun09 (Linux)
File : nvt/gb_adobe_prdts_mult_bof_vuln_jun09_lin.nasl
2009-06-16 Name : Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple BOF Vulnerabilities - Jun09 (Win)
File : nvt/gb_adobe_prdts_mult_bof_vuln_jun09_win.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
56119 Adobe Reader / Acrobat Multiple Unspecified Issues (Internal)

56118 Adobe Reader / Acrobat PDF File JPX (aka JPEG2000) Stream Handling Multiple O...

56117 Adobe Reader / Acrobat Unspecified Memory Corruption

56116 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Memory Corruption

56115 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Remote Overflow (2009-0512)

56114 Adobe Reader / Acrobat PDF File TrueType Font Handling Memory Corruption

56113 Adobe Reader / Acrobat PDF File FlateDecode Filter Parameter Handling Unspeci...

56112 Adobe Reader / Acrobat U3D Model Crafted Extension Block Handling Overflow

56111 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Remote Overflow (2009-0889)

56110 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Remote Overflow (2009-0888)

56109 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Remote Overflow (2009-0511)

56108 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Unspecified Remote Overflow (2009-0510)

56107 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Crafted File Handling Unspecified Overflow

56106 Adobe Reader / Acrobat JBIG2 Filter Huffman Encoded Text Region Segment Handl...

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-03-22 Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader U3D RHAdobeMeta buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 37712 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader U3D RHAdobeMeta buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 28626 - Revision : 8 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader U3D RHAdobeMeta buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 28303 - Revision : 7 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader JPX malformed code-block width memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 25767 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader FlateDecode integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 25588 - Revision : 5 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe RoboHelp Server Arbitrary File Upload and Execute
RuleID : 17529 - Revision : 10 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader U3D RHAdobeMeta buffer overflow attempt
RuleID : 17526 - Revision : 14 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader FlateDecode integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15709 - Revision : 19 - Type : FILE-PDF
2014-01-10 Adobe Acrobat Reader JPX malformed code-block width memory corruption attempt
RuleID : 15562 - Revision : 14 - 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-6331.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-01-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_acroread_ja-6398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-06 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_acroread-6332.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_acroread-090701.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_acroread_ja-090806.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-28 Name : The version of Adobe Acrobat on the remote Windows host is affected by multip...
File : adobe_acrobat_912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1109.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_acroread-090701.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_acroread-090701.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
2009-06-11 Name : The PDF file viewer on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulner...
File : adobe_reader_912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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