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Adobe Reader / Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 15 Aug 2012 15:46 Release Date: 15 Aug 2012 5211 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products

TYPE: Productivity Products

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

  1. An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.
  2. An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
  3. An unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory.
  4. Another unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory.
  5. Another unspecified error can be exploited to corrupt memory.
  6. An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
  7. Multiple unspecified errors can be exploited to corrupt memory.
  8. Two unspecified errors can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Note: Vulnerability #8 affects the Macintosh platform only.

 

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Adobe Acrobat 9.x
  • Adobe Acrobat X 10.x
  • Adobe Reader 9.x
  • Adobe Reader X 10.x

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  • Apply updates.

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