National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0610
Original release date:05/03/2011
Last revised:01/27/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The CoolType library in Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows, Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Mac OS X, and Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Windows and Mac OS X allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Description
Per: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-08.html
'Today's security updates are out-of-cycle updates.'
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/apsb11-08.html
'Severity rating
Adobe categorizes these as critical updates and recommends affected users update their installations to the newest versions.'
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-08.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13967
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13967
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5