Adobe Reader Flash AVM2 Memory Corruption

2011-03-3000:00:00

SAINT Corporation

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CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.971

Percentile

99.8%

JSON

Added: 03/30/2011
CVE: CVE-2011-0609
BID: 46860
OSVDB: 71254

Background

Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents.

Problem

Adobe Reader 9.x is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability as a result of parsing flash content by the bundled Adobe Flash Player.

Resolution

Update Adobe Flash Player to version 10.2.153.1 or later, Adobe AIR to version 2.6 or later, Adobe Reader X to version 10.0.2 or later, and Adobe Reader to version 9.4.3 or later.

References

<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/192052>
<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html>
<http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-and-beta-channel-updates_15.html>

Limitations

This exploit works against Adobe Systems Adobe Reader 9.4.0 running on Microsoft Windows XP SP3 English (DEP AlwaysOff) or Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 English (DEP AlwaysOff).