National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6236

Overview

Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument string to the (1) src, (2) setPageMode, (3) setLayoutMode, and (4) setNamedDest methods in an AcroPDF ActiveX control, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-6027.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/19/2006)

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the Linux version of Adobe Reader.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#198908

Name: VU#198908

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/198908

External Source: BID

Name: 21338

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21338

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html

External Source: XF

Name: adobe-acropdf-activex-dos(31167)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31167

External Source: XF

Name: adobe-acrobat-acropdf-code-execution(30574)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30574

External Source: BID

Name: 21813

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21813

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061205 eEye's Zero-Day Tracker Launch

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453579/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 3040

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3040

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-4751

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4751

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23138

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23138

External Source: MISC

Name: http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061128.html

Hyperlink:http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061128.html

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 3040

Hyperlink:http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3040