41493 : Adobe Reader / Acrobat Search Path Subversion Security Provider Library Local Privilege Escalation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-02-07

Time to Patch
134 days

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-5666" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.1 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious Security Provider library in the reader's current working directory. NOTE: this issue might be subsumed by CVE-2008-0655.

Classification

Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.1.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-5666 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 28851 29065 29205 30840
SCIP VulDB ID: 3593
Related OSVDB ID: 41494 41495
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-02/0105.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=655
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-239286-1
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-01.html

Tools & Filters

	30200 31328 40800

Credit

Greg MacManus - iDefense Labs

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.2
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-02-12 | Disagree?

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