Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader Plugin Object Reloading Memory Corruption
Severity: CRITICAL
CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-2983
Advisory Date: FEB 15, 2011
DESCRIPTION
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.2, 8.x before 8.1.7, and
possibly 7.x through 7.1.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified
vectors.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
- Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15
- Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here.
- Adobe Reader users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here.
- Adobe Reader users on UNIX can find the appropriate update here.
- Acrobat Acrobat Standard and Pro users on Windows can find the appropriate update here.
- Acrobat Pro Extended users on Windows can find the appropriate update here.
- Acrobat 3D users on Windows can find the appropriate update here.
- Acrobat Pro users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003777
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003777 - Adobe Reader And Acrobat COM Objects Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- adobe acrobat 7.0
- adobe acrobat 7.0.1
- adobe acrobat 7.0.2
- adobe acrobat 7.0.3
- adobe acrobat 7.0.4
- adobe acrobat 7.0.5
- adobe acrobat 7.0.6
- adobe acrobat 7.0.7
- adobe acrobat 7.0.8
- adobe acrobat 7.0.9
- adobe acrobat 7.1.0
- adobe acrobat 7.1.1
- adobe acrobat 7.1.3
- adobe acrobat 8.0.0
- adobe acrobat 8.1
- adobe acrobat 8.1.1
- adobe acrobat 8.1.2
- adobe acrobat 8.1.3
- adobe acrobat 8.1.4
- adobe acrobat 8.1.6
- adobe acrobat 9.0
- adobe acrobat 9.1.1
- adobe acrobat 9.1.2
- adobe acrobat 9.1.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.2
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.4
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.6
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.7
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.8
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.0.9
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.1.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.1.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 7.1.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.2
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.3
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.4
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.5
- adobe acrobat_reader 8.1.6
- adobe acrobat_reader 9.0
- adobe acrobat_reader 9.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.1
- adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.2
- adobe acrobat_reader 9.1.3
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