Check Point Advisories

Preemptive Protection against Adobe Reader and Acrobat Embedded BMP Malicious JavaScript Memory Corruption (APSB12-01; CVE-2011-4372)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2012-031
Date Published:	17 Jan 2012
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Sunday 23 February, 2025
Source:	CVE-2011-4372 CVE-2011-2438
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R70 R71 R75
Who is Vulnerable?	Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh Adobe Reader 9.4.7 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for Macintosh Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh Adobe Acrobat 9.4.7 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows Adobe Acrobat 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for Macintosh
Vulnerability Description	A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Vulnerability Details	The vulnerability is due to an error while loading specially crafted BMP image resources from a PDF file. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by enticing a target user to open a malicious PDF file with an affected version of Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected system.

Protection Overview

IPS will detect and block the transferring of specially crafted PDF files.

No update is required to address this vulnerability

Users are protected against this vulnerability if the Adobe Reader Image Texture BMP File Memory Corruption (APSB11-24) protection found in the Protection section of CPAI-2011-421 has been applied.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Adobe Reader Image Texture BMP File Memory Corruption (APSB11-24) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Adobe Reader Violation
Attack Information: Adobe Reader image texture BMP file memory corruption (APSB11-24)