Check Point Advisories

Adobe Multiple Products PDF JavaScript Method Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-5659)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-254
Date Published: 22 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 22 February, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-5659
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Adobe develop products for creating, distributing, and viewing Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Adobe Reader is a viewer application that allows for reading and printing of PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat provides PDF authoring functionalities in addition to those by viewer. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple Adobe products. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation in certain JavaScript methods. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a maliciously constructed file, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected Acrobat application that is parsing the malicious PDF document may terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack where code injection is successful, the behavior of the target host is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the currently logged in user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Multiple Products PDF JavaScript Method Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Adobe Reader Violation.
Attack Information:  Adobe Multiple Products PDF JavaScript method buffer overflow

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