Bug 760908 – CVE-2011-2462 acroread: U3D memory corruption vulnerability (APSB11-30)

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Bug 760908 - (CVE-2011-2462) CVE-2011-2462 acroread: U3D memory corruption vulnerability (APSB11-30)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2462 acroread: U3D memory corruption vulnerability (APSB11-30)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2011-2462

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	772826 772827 772828
Blocks:	760915
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Reported:	2011-12-07 05:39 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2018-02-12 12:48 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:	acroread 9.4.7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-01-10 17:59:39 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:0011	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: acroread security update	2012-01-10 22:55:55 EST

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-07 05:39:49 EST

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 09:52:26 EST

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

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2012-01-10 16:50:39 EST

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 17:57:21 EST

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

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