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Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for Solaris 10 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code or Cause Denial of Service (DoS) - Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
6891381

Product
Solaris 10 Operating System

Date of Workaround Release
22-Oct-2009

Date of Resolved Release
30-Nov-2009

Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for Solaris 10 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code or Cause Denial of Service (DoS) - Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15

1. Impact

Multiple security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader versions 9.x before 9.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7 and 7.x before 7.1.4 may allow remote unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code or crash the Adobe Reader application, thereby causing a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. These vulnerabilities may be exploited via specially crafted PDF files.

The following resources document these issues in more detail:

Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15 at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
CVE-2009-2564 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2564
CVE-2009-2979 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2979
CVE-2009-2980 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2980
CVE-2009-2981 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2981
CVE-2009-2982 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2982
CVE-2009-2983 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2983
CVE-2009-2984 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2984
CVE-2009-2985 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2985
CVE-2009-2986 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2986
CVE-2009-2987 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2987
CVE-2009-2988 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2988
CVE-2009-2989 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2989
CVE-2009-2990 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2990
CVE-2009-2991 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2991
CVE-2009-2992 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2992
CVE-2009-2993 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2993
CVE-2009-2994 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2994
CVE-2009-2995 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2995
CVE-2009-2996 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2996
CVE-2009-2997 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2997
CVE-2009-2998 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2998
CVE-2009-3431 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3431
CVE-2009-3458 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3458
CVE-2009-3459 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3459
CVE-2009-3460 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3460
CVE-2009-3461 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3461
CVE-2009-3462 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3462
CVE-2007-0045 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0045
CVE-2007-0048 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0048

2. Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following release:

SPARC Platform
  • Solaris 10 without patch 121104-11
Notes:

1. Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 on the x86 platform and OpenSolaris do not ship Adobe Reader and therefore are not affected by these issues.

2. All versions of Adobe Reader 9 prior to 9.2, Adobe Reader 8 prior to 8.1.7 and Adobe Reader 7 prior to 7.1.4 are affected by these issues.

To determine the version of Adobe Reader installed on the system, the following command can be run:
$ /usr/bin/acroread -version
7.0.1
Earlier versions of Adobe Reader on Solaris 10 only shipped acroread in /usr/sfw/bin which do not support the '-version' option, so for such instances, the following command can be used instead:
$ cat `pkgchk -l -P AcroVersion | awk '/Pathname/ { print $2 }'`
5.0.10
3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate these issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

If the described issues have been exploited to cause a Denial of Service (DoS), the Adobe Reader application will crash, potentially leaving a core(4) file depending on the system configuration.

4. Workaround

To avoid the described issues, do not load PDF files from untrusted sources.

Until patches can be applied, the risk of some of these vulnerabilities can be mitigated by preventing PDF documents from being opened
automatically by the Web browser. In Firefox 2.0, this can be set by changing the default action for PDF documents with the following:

1. Open the Preferences dialog from the Edit menu
2. Select Contents tab.
3. Click on Manage button in  File Types block.
4. Select PDF in the list and click Change Action.
5. Select 'Save them on my computer' option and click OK.

Note that this workaround will reduce the risk of exploitation but will not prevent the issues from being exploited.

5. Resolution

SPARC Platform
  • Solaris 10 with patch 121104-11 or later
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Modification History
26-Oct-2009: Updated Impact for CVE Reference CVE-2009-2579
30-Nov-2009: Updated Contributing Factors and Resolution sections; now Resolved


References

121104-11





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