Adobe Reader Denial of Service Vulnerability (May 2009)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat_reader";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800701");
  script_version("2024-02-21T05:06:26+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1493", "CVE-2009-1492");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"9.3");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-21 05:06:26 +0000 (Wed, 21 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-05-11 08:41:11 +0200 (Mon, 11 May 2009)");
  script_name("Adobe Reader Denial of Service Vulnerability (May 2009)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Adobe Reader is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"These flaws are due to a memory corruption errors in 'customDictionaryOpen'
  and 'getAnnots' methods in the JavaScript API while processing malicious PDF
  files with a long string in the second argument.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let the attacker cause memory corruption or
  denial of service.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Adobe Reader version 9.1 and prior on Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade Adobe Reader version 9.3.2 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/34924");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34736");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34740");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50146");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0904-exploits/spell.txt");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_adobe_prdts_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Adobe/Reader/Linux/Version");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!readerVer = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
  exit(0);
}

readerVer = ereg_replace(pattern:"\_", replace:".", string:readerVer);

if(readerVer == NULL){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less_equal(version:readerVer, test_version:"9.1"))
{
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:readerVer, vulnerable_range:"Less than or equal to 9.1");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
  exit(0);
}