Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 270669 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com. Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1021093.1. |
Category Security Release Phase Resolved 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
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 -versionEarlier 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 }'`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
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