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ESB-2009.1221.2 - UPDATE [Solaris] Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: 03 September 2009
References: ESB-2009.1220  
Related Files: ESB-2009.1221  

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                              ESB-2009.1221.2
Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for Solaris 10 May Allow
       Execution of Arbitrary Code or Cause Denial of Service (DoS)
                    (Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-07)
                             3 September 2009

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           Adobe Reader
Publisher:         Sun Microsystems
Operating System:  Solaris
Impact/Access:     Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote/Unauthenticated
                   Denial of Service               -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2009-1861 CVE-2009-1859 CVE-2009-1858
                   CVE-2009-1857 CVE-2009-1856 CVE-2009-1855
                   CVE-2009-0889 CVE-2009-0888 CVE-2009-0512
                   CVE-2009-0511 CVE-2009-0510 CVE-2009-0509
                   CVE-2009-0198  

Reference:         ESB-2009.1220

Original Bulletin: 
   http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-66-265330-1

Revision History:  September  3 2009: Patches released
                   August    26 2009: Initial Release

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Solution Type: Sun Alert
Solution  265330 :   Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader
for Solaris 10 May Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code or Cause Denial
of Service (DoS) (Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-07)          
Bug ID: 6854786

Product:
Solaris 10 Operating System

Date of Workaround Release: 11-Aug-2009

Date of Resolved Release: 01-Sep-2009

SA Document Body
Multiple security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat:

1. Impact
Multiple security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions
prior to 9.1.2, 8.1.6, and 7.1.3 may allow a remote unprivileged user
to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Adobe Reader or crash the Adobe Reader application, thereby causing a
Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
These issues are also described in the following documents:
 APSB09-07 at: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-07.html
 US-CERT-TA09-161A at: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-161A.html
 CVE-2009-0198 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0198
 CVE-2009-0509 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0509
 CVE-2009-0510 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0510
 CVE-2009-0511 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0511
 CVE-2009-0512 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0512
 CVE-2009-0888 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0888
 CVE-2009-0889 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0889
 CVE-2009-1855 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1855
 CVE-2009-1856 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1856
 CVE-2009-1857 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1857
 CVE-2009-1858 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1858
 CVE-2009-1859 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1859
 CVE-2009-1861 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1861

2. Contributing Factors
These issues can occur in the following release:
SPARC Platform
  * Solaris 10 without patch 121104-10

Note 1: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10 on the x86 platform, and
OpenSolaris do not ship Adobe Reader and therefore are not affected by
this issue.
Note 2: All versions of Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 prior to
9.1.2 are affected by these issues.  All versions of Adobe Acrobat 8
prior to 8.1.6 and all versions of Adobe Acrobat 7 prior to Acrobat
7.1.3 are affected by these issues as well.
To determine the version of Adobe Reader installed on the system, the
following command can be run:
 $ /usr/bin/acroread -version
 7.0.1

Earlier versions of Adobe Reader on Solaris 10 only shipped acroread
in /usr/sfw/bin which do not support the "-version" option, so for
such instances, the following command can be used instead:
 $ cat `pkgchk -l -P AcroVersion SUNWacroread | awk '/Pathname/ { print $2 }'`
 5.0.10

3. Symptoms
There are no predictable symptoms that would indicate that these
issues have been exploited to execute arbitrary code.

4. Workaround
To avoid the described issues, do not load PDF files from untrusted
sources.

5. Resolution
These issues are addressed in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
  * Solaris 10 with patch 121104-10 or later

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical
Instruction ID 213557.
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Copyright 2000-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa
Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. All rights reserved

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