FortiGuard Advisory (FGA-2010-18)

Fortinet Discovers Multiple Adobe Reader / Acrobat Vulnerabilities (APSB10-09)
2010.April.13

Summary:

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered two memory corruption vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader / Acrobat, which allow a remote attacker to compromise a system through a malicious document.

Impact:

Remote Code Execution.

Risk:

High.

Affected Software:

For a list of affected software, please refer to the Adobe Security Bulletin reference below.

Additional Information:

Two memory corruption vulnerabilities were discovered in Adobe Reader / Acrobat, each of which is highlighted below:
  • Memory corruption in "3difr.x3d". The vulnerable X3D component is a plugin used to display 3D material, which when present in a PDF document, can lead to exploitation (CVE-2010-0194).
  • Memory corruption through heap overflow in "CoolType.dll" (CVE-2010-1241).
The vulnerabilities are triggered when opening and rendering a PDF document. A remote attacker could craft a malicious document which exploits either one of these vulnerabilities, allowing them to compromise a system.

Solutions:
FortiGuard Labs released the following signatures to protect against these vulnerabilities
  • "Adobe.Reader.DeviceRGB.Subtype.Stream.Memory.Corruption", previously released as "FG-VD-10-003-Adobe" (CVE-2010-0194).
  • "Adobe.Reader.Acrobat.Pro.CFF.Encodings.Handling.Heap.Overflow", previously released as "FG-VD-10-005-Adobe" (CVE-2010-1241).
References:

Acknowledgment:
  • Bing Liu of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2010-0194)
  • Haifei Li of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs (CVE-2010-1241)


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