GLSA 200908-04: Adobe products: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Adobe products: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	08/07/2009
Bugs:	#278813, #278819
ID:	200908-04

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player allow for attacks including the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Adobe Flash Player is a closed-source playback software for Flash SWF files. Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader that plays Flash content as well.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-plugins/adobe-flash	< 10.0.32.18	>= 10.0.32.18	All supported architectures
app-text/acroread	< 9.1.3	>= 9.1.3	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player:

lakehu of Tencent Security Center reported an unspecified memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2009-1862).
Mike Wroe reported an unspecified vulnerability, related to "privilege escalation" (CVE-2009-1863).
An anonymous researcher through iDefense reported an unspecified heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1864).
Chen Chen of Venustech reported an unspecified "null pointer vulnerability" (CVE-2009-1865).
Chen Chen of Venustech reported an unspecified stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-1866).
Joran Benker reported that Adobe Flash Player facilitates "clickjacking" attacks (CVE-2009-1867).
Jun Mao of iDefense reported a heap-based buffer overflow, related to URL parsing (CVE-2009-1868).
Roee Hay of IBM Rational Application Security reported an unspecified integer overflow (CVE-2009-1869).
Gareth Heyes and Microsoft Vulnerability Research reported that the sandbox in Adobe Flash Player allows for information disclosure, when "SWFs are saved to the hard drive" (CVE-2009-1870).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file or web site containing Adobe Flash (SWF) contents, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, or a Denial of Service (application crash). Furthermore, a remote attacker could trick a user into clicking a button on a dialog by supplying a specially crafted SWF file and disclose sensitive information by exploiting a sandbox issue.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Flash Player users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.32.18"

All Adobe Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/acroread-9.1.3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-04.xml

Concerns?

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