National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2984
Original release date:10/19/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in the image decoder in Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.2, and possibly 7.x through 7.1.4 and 8.x through 8.1.7, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Per: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
This update resolves an image decoder issue that leads to a Denial of Service (DoS); arbitrary code execution has not been demonstrated, but may be possible. This issue is specific to Acrobat and does not affect Adobe Reader. (CVE-2009-2984).
NOTE: this issue is resolved in the Acrobat 9.2 update.
Solution
Per: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
Solution
Acrobat
Acrobat Standard and Pro users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows.
Acrobat Pro Extended users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=158&platform=Windows
Acrobat 3D users on Windows can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=112&platform=Windows.
Acrobat Pro users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Macintosh.}
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-286B
Name: TA09-286B
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2898
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 36638
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023007
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5523
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5523
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
