920180 – (CVE-2013-2549) CVE-2013-2549 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code (CanSecWest 2013)

Bug 920180 (CVE-2013-2549) - CVE-2013-2549 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code (CanSecWest 2013)

Summary: CVE-2013-2549 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows remote attackers to ...

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Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2013-2549
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	urgent
Severity:	urgent
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On:	962943 962944 962945 962946
Blocks:	920183 961684
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2013-03-11 14:08 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2021-02-17 07:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-05-15 14:39:01 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0826	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: acroread security update	2013-11-13 16:09:56 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-11 14:08:27 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2549 to the following vulnerability:

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader 11.0.02 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a "break into the sandbox," as demonstrated by George Hotz during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2549
[2] http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157
[3] http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/309771882612281344

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-18 05:09:30 UTC

Statement:

(none)

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-15 09:03:23 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0826 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0826.html

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