National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2996

Overview

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2985.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Per http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html Solution Adobe Reader Adobe Reader users on Windows can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows. Adobe Reader users on Macintosh can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Macintosh. Adobe Reader users on UNIX can find the appropriate update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Unix. 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.}

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-286B

Name: TA09-286B

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2898

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

External Source: BID

Name: 36638

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023007

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5560

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5560

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5560

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5560