Check Point Advisories

Adobe Reader Image Texture Malformed IFF File Memory Corruption (APSB11-03; CVE-2011-0590)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2011-035
Date Published: 23 Feb 2011
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 16 July, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2011-0590
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat and Reader products include a plugin to parse the 3D image files inside PDF documents. PDF files can include 3D images in Universal 3D format that can link to external image files, such as an Interchange File Format (IFF) file, a generic container file format. A remote attacker could exploit this issue via a malformed IFF file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code on a target system. The vulnerability is due to a 3D file parsing input validation error in Adobe Reader and Acrobat when parsing an external texture file in IFF format. A remote attacker could trigger this issue via a specially crafted IFF file that uses run-length encoding for its pixel data. 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 file is loaded on a vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block the transferring of malformed IFF 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 Image Texture Malformed IFF File Memory Corruption (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 Reader image texture malformed IFF file memory corruption (APSB11-03)

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