68416 : Adobe Reader / Acrobat Unspecified Crafted Font Arbitrary Code Execution (2010-2889)
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-10-05

Description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat contains a flaw related to font-parsing input validation that may allow a context-dependent attacker to use a crafted font to execute arbitrary code. No further details have been provided.

Classification

Location: Context Dependent, Location Unknown
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.2.5, 9.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Adobe Systems Incorporated	Acrobat	9.3.4
		8.2.4
	Adobe Reader	9.3.4
		8.2.4

References

CVE ID: 2010-2889 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 41690 41753 41958 43025
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201101-08.xml
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0743.html

Credit

Tavis Ormandy - Google Security Team

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-10-07 | Disagree?

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