Check Point Advisories

Adobe Reader d3dref9.dll Insecure Library Loading (APSB11-03; CVE-2011-0588)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2011-027
Date Published: 22 Feb 2011
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 22 February, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2011-0588
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Adobe Reader and Acrobat is a family of computer programs developed by Adobe Systems, designed to view, create, manipulate and manage files in Adobe's core technology, the Portable Document Format (PDF), a format that has become the de facto standard in the electronic document exchange. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the way Adobe Reader and Acrobat handle the loading of DLL files. The vulnerability is caused by the Acrobat Reader that uses the Windows DLL load order to attempt to load a DLL named d3dref9.dll when displaying certain PDF files. When opening Acrobat Reader through a local PDF file, the directory of the PDF file becomes the application's current directory for loading d3dref9.dll. Therefore, Adobe Reader could potentially load an attacker's DLL file and execute any code it contained. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to take complete control of an affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of suspicious DLL files over CIFS.

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 d3dref9.dll Insecure Library Loading (APSB11-03) 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 Acrobat Reader d3dref9.dll library loading

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