Check Point Advisories

Adobe Reader Postscript Conversion Memory Corruption (APSB10-09; CVE-2010-0192)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-070
Date Published: 14 Apr 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 14 April, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-0192
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open file format created by Adobe Systems. A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on an affected system via a specially crafted PDF file. The vulnerability is due to the way Adobe Reader and Acrobat parse a malformed 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.

Protection Overview

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.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Reader Postscript Conversion Memory Corruption (APSB10-09) 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 Reader postscript conversion memory corruption (APSB10-09)

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