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Title: Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are applications for handling PDF files. Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia application. The applications are available for multiple platforms.

Acrobat, Reader, and Flash Player are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability that arises in the Adobe ActionScript Virtual Machine and affects the 'flash9f.dll' and 'authplay.dll' modules. Specifically, an arbitrary value for an object scope can be placed on the stack as a memory address and then later referenced by a call to 'MethodEnv::findproperty'. This call will reference heap memory containing arbitrary code specified by the attacker and will allow code execution in the context of the user running the affected application.

The attacker can exploit this issue by supplying a malicious Flash ('.swf') file or by embedding a malicious Flash application in a PDF file.

Failed attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions.

UPDATE (September 4, 2009): Mac OS X 10.6 reportedly ships with Flash Player 10.0.23.1, which will overwrite any installed version of Flash Player when Mac OS X is being installed.

The issue affects the following:

Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2
Flash Player 9 and 10

Affected Products:

  • Adobe AIR 1.0
  • Adobe AIR 1.01
  • Adobe AIR 1.1
  • Adobe AIR 1.5
  • Adobe AIR 1.5.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 9
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2
  • Adobe Acrobat Standard 9
  • Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.1
  • Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.1.2
  • Adobe Flash Player 10
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12 .35
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12 .36
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.0.15 .3
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87
  • Adobe Flash Player 9
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.151 .0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.152 .0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.159.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.31.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.45.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.47.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0
  • Adobe Reader 9.1.2
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.6
  • Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6
  • Gentoo Linux
  • Nortel Networks Self-Service MPS 1000
  • Nortel Networks Self-Service MPS 500
  • Nortel Networks Self-Service Peri Application
  • Nortel Networks Self-Service Speech Server
  • Pardus Linux 2008
  • Pardus Linux 2009
  • RedHat Desktop Extras 3
  • RedHat Desktop Extras 4
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux AS Extras 3
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux AS Extras 4
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary 5 client
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux ES Extras 3
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux ES Extras 4
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 3
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Extras 4
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 server
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux WS Extras 3
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux WS Extras 4
  • S.u.S.E. Novell Linux Desktop 9
  • S.u.S.E. SLED 11
  • S.u.S.E. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2
  • S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3
  • S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.0
  • S.u.S.E. openSUSE 11.1
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_01
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_02
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_100
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_101
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_101a
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_102
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_103
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_105
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_109
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_110
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_111
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_111a
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_112
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_113
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_114
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_115
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_116
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_120
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_13
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_19
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_22
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_29
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_36
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_37
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_38
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_39
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_41
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_50
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_54
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_57
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_58
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_59
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_61
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_64
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_67
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_68
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_76
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_81
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_87
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_88
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_89
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_90
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_91
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  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_93
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_94
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_95
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_96
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_98
  • Sun OpenSolaris build snv_99
  • Sun Solaris 10
  • Sun Solaris 10_x86
  • Turbolinux Client 2008

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