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Fortinet Protects Against Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerability

Summary:

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs Protects Against a Vulnerability in Adobe.

Impact:

Remote Code Execution

Risk:

Critical

Affected Software:

For a list of Adobe versions affected, please see the references below.

Additional Information:

A vulnerability that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

FortiGuard Labs continues to monitor this vulnerability world wide while developing additional mitigation strategies / solutions based off our findings.

Solutions:

  • FortiGuard Labs released the following signature which covers this specific vulnerability
    • "Adobe.CoolType.SING.Table.uniqueName.Buffer.Overflow" on September 10,2010

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.

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