Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2013-3560 |
Date Published: | 1 Dec 2013 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Sunday 14 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-0590 CVE-2011-0591 CVE-2011-0592 CVE-2011-0593 CVE-2011-0596 CVE-2011-0599 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The vulnerability is due to an image parsing input validation error in Adobe Reader and Acrobat when parsing an external texture file. A remote attacker could trigger this issue via a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation may cause denial of service and allow arbitrary code execution. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Adobe Reader Violation.
Attack Information: Adobe Acrobat Reader U3D Texture External File Buffer Overflow (APSB11-03)