Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These flaws are due to memory corruption errors in the AcroPDF ActiveX control (AcroPDF.dll) that does not properly handle malformed arguments passed to the "setPageMode()", "setLayoutMode()", "setNamedDest()", and "LoadFile()" methods, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page with Internet Explorer.

Note : These vulnerabilities have been discovered by VUPEN and reported to the vendor on September 25, 2006.

Affected Products

Adobe Reader versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8
Adobe Acrobat Standard versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8
Adobe Acrobat Professional versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Reader 8 :
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4751
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-20.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by FrSIRT

ChangeLog

2006-11-28 : Initial release
2006-12-06 : Updated Solution

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