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)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-2462
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 772826 772827 772828
Blocks: 760915
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-07 10:39 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: acroread 9.4.7
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-01-10 22:59:39 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0011 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: acroread security update 2012-01-11 03:55:55 UTC

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
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