53647 : Adobe Acrobat getIcon() Function PDF Handling Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
18	1092	over 3 years ago	about 1 year ago	22 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2008-07-03	2009-03-18	2009-03-24

Time to Patch
264 days

Keywords

6816953, TippingPoint IPS Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 6255

Description

A buffer overflow exists in Acrobat and Reader. The getIcon() method fails to validate string arguments resulting in a stack overflow. With a specially crafted PDF file, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 7.1.1, 8.1.4 or 9.1 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Adobe Systems Incorporated	Acrobat	7.0.9
		8.1.2
		9.0
	Reader	7.0.9
		8.1.2
		9.0

References

Security Tracker: 1021861
CVE ID: 2009-0927 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 34169
Secunia Advisory ID: 34490 34706 34790 34804
ISS X-Force ID: 49312
Related OSVDB ID: 53644 53645 53646 53648
Metasploit ID: 53647
Milw0rm: 8595
Exploit Database: 8595
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-03/0231.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-09/0033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00005.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502116/100/0/threaded
Other Advisory URL: http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/05/07/phpnuke-org-has-been-compromised.aspx
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-256788-1
http://www.coromputer.net/CVE-2009-0927_package.zip
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=220a1b24e02c2757eccebb6827b4021d570b0f662dd1b0772c22c96b8f6b7c1d-1282772703
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=47fa0316907813716c28c9ceb332fea8fa2c57791f72586303f71ba55107f4f4-1267941635
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0770
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-014
Generic Exploit URL: http://immunitysec.com
http://www.saintcorporation.com/cgi-bin/exploit_info/adobe_acrobat_javascript_geticon
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-256788-1
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200904-17.xml

Tools & Filters

	35821 40803

Credit

Tenable Network Security - Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-03-19 | Disagree?

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