gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200907-06.xml

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<glsa id="200907-06">
  <title>Adobe Reader: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Adobe Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution via crafted PDF files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">acroread</product>
  <announced>2009-07-12</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-07-12</revised>
  <bug>267846</bug>
  <bug>273908</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/acroread" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.1.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.1.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Adobe Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based buffer
    overflow in the JBIG2 filter (CVE-2009-0198).
    </li>
    <li>Mark Dowd of the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force and
    Nicolas Joly of VUPEN Security reported multiple heap-based buffer
    overflows in the JBIG2 filter (CVE-2009-0509, CVE-2009-0510,
    CVE-2009-0511, CVE-2009-0512, CVE-2009-0888, CVE-2009-0889)
    </li>
    <li>Arr1val reported that multiple methods in the JavaScript API
    might lead to memory corruption when called with crafted arguments
    (CVE-2009-1492, CVE-2009-1493).
    </li>
    <li>
    An anonymous researcher reported a stack-based buffer overflow related
    to U3D model files with a crafted extension block (CVE-2009-1855).
    </li>
    <li>
    Jun Mao and Ryan Smith of iDefense Labs reported an integer overflow
    related to the FlateDecode filter, which triggers a heap-based buffer
    overflow (CVE-2009-1856).
    </li>
    <li>
    Haifei Li of Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team
    reported a memory corruption vulnerability related to TrueType fonts
    (CVE-2009-1857).
    </li>
    <li>
    The Apple Product Security Team reported a memory corruption
    vulnerability in the JBIG2 filter (CVE-2009-1858).
    </li>
    <li>
    Matthew Watchinski of Sourcefire VRT reported an unspecified memory
    corruption (CVE-2009-1859).
    </li>
    <li>
    Will Dormann of CERT reported multiple heap-based buffer overflows when
    processing JPX (aka JPEG2000) stream that trigger heap memory
    corruption (CVE-2009-1861).
    </li>
    <li>
    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered
    (CVE-2009-2028).
    </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
    document, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with
    the privileges of the user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Adobe Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/acroread-8.1.6"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0198">CVE-2009-0198</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0509">CVE-2009-0509</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0510">CVE-2009-0510</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0511">CVE-2009-0511</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0512">CVE-2009-0512</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0888">CVE-2009-0888</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0889">CVE-2009-0889</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1492">CVE-2009-1492</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1493">CVE-2009-1493</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1855">CVE-2009-1855</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1856">CVE-2009-1856</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1857">CVE-2009-1857</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1858">CVE-2009-1858</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1859">CVE-2009-1859</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1861">CVE-2009-1861</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2028">CVE-2009-2028</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-06-21T19:11:36Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-07-09T17:45:58Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-07-09T17:47:39Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>