National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2883

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Per: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html 'Adobe is in the process of evaluating the schedule for an update to resolve this vulnerability.'}

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-279A

Name: TA10-279A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-279A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#491991

Name: VU#491991

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/491991

External Source: XF

Name: adobe-reader-cooltype-code-execution(61635)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61635

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0344

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0344

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0191

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0191

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2331

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2331

External Source: TURBO

Name: TLSA-2011-2

Hyperlink:http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2011/TLSA-2011-2j.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 43057

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43057

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0743

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0743.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html

Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-201101-08

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-08.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43025

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43025

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 41340

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/41340

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:019

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:048

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx

Hyperlink:http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html

Hyperlink:http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586