Bug 528665 (CVE-2009-2979, CVE-2009-2988, CVE-2009-3431)

Summary: CVE-2009-2979 CVE-2009-2988 CVE-2009-3431 acroread: Multiple DoS fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: krh, mjc, mkasik, mmcallis, vdanen
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
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Last Closed: 2009-10-15 07:42:07 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 528074, 528075, 528076    
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-10-13 09:10:28 UTC 
Adobe has published a security bulletin APSB09-15 for security issues 
leading to denial of service, addressed in Adobe Reader and Acrobat products:

  http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

Quoting Adobe bulletin APSB09-15 for issues descriptions:

  This update resolves a XMP-XML entity expansion issue that could lead to
  a Denial of Service (DoS) attack (CVE-2009-2979).
  
  This update resolves an input validation issue that could lead to a Denial
  of Service (DoS) issue (CVE-2009-2988).

  This update resolves an integer overflow in Acrobat that leads to a Denial
  of Service (DoS) (CVE-2009-2995).

  This update resolves a stack overflow issue that could potentially lead
  to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack (CVE-2009-3431).
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2009-10-14 00:33:06 UTC 
According to the bulletin:

This update resolves an integer overflow in that leads to a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue is specific to Acrobat and does not affect Adobe Reader. (CVE-2009-2995).

So CVE-2009-2995 is not applicable here.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-14 15:36:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Extras for RHEL 3
  Extras for RHEL 4
  Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1499 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1499.html