Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2010-068 |
Date Published: | 14 Apr 2010 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Thursday 07 July, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2010-0194 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | The vulnerability is due to the way Adobe Reader and Acrobat parse a PDF file containing an overly complex U3D "Base Mesh" stream. A remote attacker could trigger this issue via a specially crafted PDF file. Successful exploitation will create a denial of service condition, causing the application to become non-responsive, and may allow execution of arbitrary code once a malicious PDF file is loaded on a vulnerable system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to transfer malformed PDF files over HTTP.
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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Adobe Reader Violation.
Attack Information: Adobe Reader overly complex U3D base mesh memory corruption (APSB10-09)