Introducing WhiteBear

As a part of our Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription, customers received an update in mid-February 2017 on some interesting APT activity that we called WhiteBear. Much of the contents of that report are reproduced here. WhiteBear is a parallel project or second stage of the Skipper...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-25777)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-21198)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-25780)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-25783)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-21193)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2017-2820

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To...

CVE-2017-2820

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To...

CVE-2017-9775

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler such as Evince to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened...

CVE-2016-8333

An exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ipfSetColourStroke functionality of Iceni Argus version 6.6.04 A specially crafted pdf file can cause a buffer overflow resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious pdf file to trigger this...

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption (APSB16-33: CVE-2016-6959; CVE-2016-6966; CVE-2016-6978)

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The vulnerability is due to an error while loading a PDF containing a malicious JavaScript code. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by enticing a target user to open a malicious PDF file with an affected version of Adobe...

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Error Referencing Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-08946)

Adobe Reader is a free PDF file reader; Acrobat is a PDF file editing and conversion tool; Acrobat Reader DC is a set of tools for viewing, printing and annotating PDFs. A memory misreference code execution vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which allows remote attackers to exploit...

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-00262)

Adobe Reader is a PDF document reading software. Acrobat is a PDF document editing software. Adobe Reader and Acrobat processing PDF documents there are memory corruption vulnerabilities, allowing remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to build malicious PDF files, inducing the user to...

Google Chrome PDFium 'CPDF_Document::GetPage' function code injection vulnerability

Google Chrome is an open source WEB browser. Google Chrome uses PDFium in the fpdfapi/fpdfparser/fpdfparserdocument.cpp file in the 'CPDFDocument::GetPage' function has a security vulnerability that allows an An attacker to construct a malicious PDF document and induce users to parse it, which...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Javascript API Execution Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06717)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An unspecified security bypass vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. The vulnerability allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which could bypass Javascript API...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Javascript API Execution Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06696)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An execution bypass vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which can bypass Javascript API execution restrictions...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06687)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An unspecified memory misreference vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. This allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which could crash the application or execute...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Javascript API Execution Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06728)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An unspecified security bypass vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. The vulnerability allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which could bypass Javascript API...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06737)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An unspecified heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. This allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which could crash the application or execute...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Javascript API Execution Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06718)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. An unspecified security bypass vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. The vulnerability allows an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it, which could bypass Javascript API...