[CS-FSLUG] Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Fri Dec 17 13:45:47 CST 2004


Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13471

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13471/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, System access

WHERE: From remote

SOFTWARE:
Adobe Reader 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/1810/
Adobe Acrobat 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/1809/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe
Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information or compromise a user's system.

1) A format string error within the eBook plug-in when parsing ".etd"
files can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially
crafted eBook containing format specifiers in the "title" and
"baseurl" fields.

2) Multiple vulnerabilities in libpng have been acknowledged, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

For more information:
SA12219

3) An error within the handling of Flash files embedded in PDF
documents can be exploited to read the content of files on a user's
system.

For more information:
SA12809

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 6.0.0 through
6.0.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.0.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Greg MacManus, iDEFENSE Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2679

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=163&type=vulnerabilities

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA12219:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12219/

SA12809:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12809/

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