Adobe Reader And Acrobat XMP-XML Entity Expansion Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Publish date: February 15, 2011
Severity: MEDIUM
CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-2979
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 do not properly perform XMP-XML entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted document.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Per: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html Solution Adobe Reader Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows. Adobe Reader users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Macintosh. Adobe Reader users on UNIX can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix. Acrobat Acrobat Standard and Pro users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows. Acrobat Pro Extended users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=158&platform=Windows Acrobat 3D users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=112&platform=Windows. Acrobat Pro users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Macintosh.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003807
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003807 - Adobe Reader And Acrobat XMP-XML Entity Expansion Denial Of Service 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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