Check Point Advisories

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Embedded BMP Memory Corruption (APSB12-01; CVE-2012-4373)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-030
Date Published: 17 Jan 2012
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 17 January, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2012-4373
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow 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.

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 and Acrobat Embedded BMP Memory Corruption (APSB12-01) 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 and Acrobat embedded BMP memory corruption (APSB12-01)

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