Check Point Advisories

Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader Plugin Object Reloading Memory Corruption (CVE-2009-2983)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-437
Date Published: 14 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 26 July, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-2983
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Adobe develops products for creating, distributing, and viewing Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Adobe Reader is a viewer application that allows for reading and the printing of PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat provides PDF authoring functionality in addition to those of viewing. In addition to these applications, Adobe also provides a plugin for web browsers to parse PDF documents. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader Plugin. The vulnerability is due to an error when handling certain COM objects. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to visit a specially crafted web page. Exploitation of the vulnerability can result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the application. In a 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 injected code, in this case, would execute within the security context of the currently logged in user. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected application will terminate abnormally.

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 Acrobat and Adobe Reader Plugin Object Reloading Memory Corruption 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:  A possible malicious usage of type attribute inside HTML page was detected

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