Adobe Acrobat 9.x / 10.x Unspecified Memory Corruption (APSB11-06)

high Nessus Plugin ID 52671

Synopsis

The version of Adobe Acrobat on the remote Windows host is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability.

Description

The remote Windows host contains a version of Adobe Acrobat 9.x < 9.4.3 or 10.x < 10.0.2. Such versions are affected by an unspecified memory corruption vulnerability in authplay.dll.

A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into viewing maliciously crafted SWF content, resulting in arbitrary code execution.

This bug is currently being exploited in the wild.

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Acrobat 9.4.3 / 10.0.2 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?82775d9e

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-06.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 52671

File Name: adobe_acrobat_apsa11-01.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/15/2011

Updated: 5/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0609

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Adobe Acrobat

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2011

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/22/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player AVM Bytecode Verification Vulnerability)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0609

BID: 46860

CERT: 192052