Adobe Reader Flash AVM2 Memory Corruption

Added: 03/30/2011
CVE: CVE-2011-0609
BID: 46860
OSVDB: 71254

Background

Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents.

Problem

Adobe Reader 9.x is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability as a result of parsing flash content by the bundled Adobe Flash Player.

Resolution

Update Adobe Flash Player to version 10.2.153.1 or later, Adobe AIR to version 2.6 or later, Adobe Reader X to version 10.0.2 or later, and Adobe Reader to version 9.4.3 or later.

References

<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/192052&gt;
<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-01.html&gt;
<http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-and-beta-channel-updates_15.html&gt;

Limitations

This exploit works against Adobe Systems Adobe Reader 9.4.0 running on Microsoft Windows XP SP3 English (DEP AlwaysOff) or Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 English (DEP AlwaysOff).

Platforms

Windows