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Posted on 14 April 2010
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Fortinet Discovers Multiple Adobe Reader / Acrobat Vulnerabilities
(APSB10-09)
2010.April.13
Summary:
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered two memory corruption
vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader / Acrobat, which allow a remote attacker to
compromise a system through a malicious document.
Impact:
Remote Code Execution.
Risk:
High.
Affected Software:
For a list of affected software, please refer to the Adobe Security Bulletin
reference below.
Additional Information:
Two memory corruption vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Reader /
Acrobat, each of which is highlighted below:
* Memory corruption in "3difr.x3d". The vulnerable X3D component is a
plugin used to display 3D material, which when present in a PDF document,
can lead to exploitation (CVE-2010-0194).
* Memory corruption through heap overflow in "CoolType.dll"
(CVE-2010-1241).
The vulnerabilities are triggered when opening and rendering a PDF document.
A remote attacker could craft a malicious document which exploits either one
of these vulnerabilities, allowing them to compromise a system.
Solutions:
* Users should apply the solution provided by Adobe.
FortiGuard Labs released the following signatures to protect against these
vulnerabilities
* "Adobe.Reader.DeviceRGB.Subtype.Stream.Memory.Corruption", previously
released as "FG-VD-10-003-Adobe" (CVE-2010-0194).
* "Adobe.Reader.Acrobat.Pro.CFF.Encodings.Handling.Heap.Overflow",
previously released as "FG-VD-10-005-Adobe" (CVE-2010-1241).
References:
* Adobe Security Bulletin:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-09.html
* CVE ID: CVE-2010-0194
* CVE ID: CVE-2010-1241
Acknowledgment:
* Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2010-0194)
* Haifei Li of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2010-1241)
