Bug 760908 (CVE-2011-2462)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2462 acroread: U3D memory corruption vulnerability (APSB11-30)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mkasik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	acroread 9.4.7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-01-10 22:59:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	772826, 772827, 772828
Bug Blocks:	760915

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-07 10:39:49 UTC

Adobe has published an advisory, describing the presence of a critical vulnerability:

This U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and Acrobat X Protected View mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.

in versions of Adobe Reader v9.4.6 and earlier versions for UNIX operating system.

According to the advisory [1], the Adobe Reader 9.x update for UNIX operating system is planned for January 10, 2012.

References:
[1] http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-04.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2011-12-15 14:52:26 UTC

http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2011/12/background-on-cve-2011-2462.html

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2012-01-10 21:50:39 UTC

Updated 9.4.7 packages are now available for Linux:

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-30.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-10 22:57:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Extras for RHEL 4
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0011 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0011.html