Bug 450078 (CVE-2008-2549)

Summary: CVE-2008-2549 acroread: crash and possible code execution
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly, krh
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2549
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Last Closed: 2008-11-13 15:35:58 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 469916, 469917, 469918    
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-06-05 06:54:03 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2549 to the following vulnerability:

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute
arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by
2008-HI2.pdf.

References:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5687
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29420
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-06-05 06:55:13 UTC 
Created attachment 308415 [details]
Public PoC

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5687
http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2008-HI2.pdf
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2008-11-05 08:18:22 UTC 
Fixed upstream in 8.1.3:
  http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html
Comment 6 Red Hat Product Security 2008-11-13 15:35:58 UTC 
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html