Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities

SA37690

CVE-2009-3953, CVE-2009-3954, CVE-2009-3955, CVE-2009-3956, CVE-2009-3959, CVE-2009-4324

15 Dec 2009

14 Jan 2010

Extremely Critical

Vendor Patch

Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe Acrobat 8.x
Adobe Acrobat 9.x
Adobe Reader 8.x
Adobe Reader 9.x

From remote

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities allow a third party to manipulate the content or behaviour of a web application in a user's browser, without compromising the underlying system.

Different Cross-Site Scripting related vulnerabilities are also classified under this category, including "script insertion" and "cross-site request forgery".

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities are often used against specific users of a website to steal their credentials or to conduct spoofing attacks.

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the implementation of the "Doc.media.newPlayer()" JavaScript method can be exploited to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted PDF file.

NOTE: This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited.

2) An array indexing error exists in 3difr.x3d when processing U3D CLOD Mesh Declaration blocks. This can potentially be exploited to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code via a PDF file containing a specially crafted U3D model.

3) An error in the 3D implementation when loading DLLs can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.

4) A sign extension error exists when processing a Jp2c stream of a JpxDecode data stream. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted JPC_MS_RGN marker.

5) An error when processing Forms Data Format (FDF) files can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a user's browser session in context of a site hosting a target PDF file.

6) An integer overflow error in the U3D implementation can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 9.2 and prior.

Update to version 8.2 or 9.3.

Adobe Reader:
http://get.adobe.com/reader

Acrobat Standard and Pro on Windows:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows

Acrobat Pro Extended on Windows:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=158&platform=Windows

Acrobat 3D on Windows:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=112&platform=Windows

Acrobat Pro users on Macintosh:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Macintosh

NOTE: Support has ended for Adobe Reader 8.x on UNIX. Upgrade to version 9.3.

1) Reported as a 0-day.
2) Originally reported by Felipe Andres Manzano in versions prior to 9.2. Reported in version 9.2 by Parvez Anwar.
4) Code Audit Labs, reported via iDefense
5) Paul Theriault, stratsec

The vendor also credits:
3) Greg MacManus of iSIGHT Partners Labs
6) Nicolas Joly of Vupen

Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html

Felipe Andres Manzano:
http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/repository/entry/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_u3d_meshdecl.rb

iDefense:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=836

stratsec:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-01/0245.html