Adobe Reader and Acrobat .PDF Vulnerability

Publish date: February 11, 2011
  Severity: CRITICAL
  CVE Identifier: CVE-2010-2883
  Advisory Date: SEP 09, 2010

  DESCRIPTION

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.

  TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION

More information on the patches and workarounds are found in the following Adobe Web page:


Trend Micro clients using OfficeScan with Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) may refer to the table below for the pattern filter identifier(s):

Vulnerability ID Identifier & Title IDF First Pattern Version IDF First Pattern Release Version
CVE-2010-2883 1004393 - Adobe Reader SING Table Parsing Vulnerability 10-030 Sep 21, 2010
CVE-2010-2883 1004113 - Identified Malicious Adobe PDF Document 10-030 Sep 21, 2010
CVE-2010-2883 1004315 - Identified Malicious Adobe PDF Document - 3 10-030 Sep 21, 2010

  SOLUTION

  AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION

  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.0.0
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.3
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.3
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.4
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.3
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.4
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.2.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.7
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.6
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.5
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.4
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.3.3
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.3.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.3
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.1.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.2.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.2
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.6
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.5
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.1.4

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