Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
BID:10931
Info
Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
| Bugtraq ID: | 10931 |
| Class: | Input Validation Error |
| CVE: |
CVE-2004-0630 |
| Remote: | Yes |
| Local: | No |
| Published: | Aug 12 2004 12:00AM |
| Updated: | Jul 12 2009 06:16AM |
| Credit: | Discovery is credited to Greg MacManus (iDEFENSE Labs). |
| Vulnerable: |
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64 S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 6 Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 5 Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 |
| Not Vulnerable: |
Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0.9 |
Discussion
Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
A remote code execution vulnerability is identified in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This issue may allow an attacker gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable computer.
Acrobat Reader is affected by a shell metacharacter command execution vulnerability. This issue exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data by Acrobat Reader for Unix and Linux platforms. Successful exploitation can allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file name to execute arbitrary commands and applications through the shell.
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5.0 for Unix and Linux platforms is reported vulnerable to this issue. Acrobat Reader for Microsoft Windows platforms is not affected by this issue.
A remote code execution vulnerability is identified in Adobe Acrobat Reader. This issue may allow an attacker gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable computer.
Acrobat Reader is affected by a shell metacharacter command execution vulnerability. This issue exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data by Acrobat Reader for Unix and Linux platforms. Successful exploitation can allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file name to execute arbitrary commands and applications through the shell.
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5.0 for Unix and Linux platforms is reported vulnerable to this issue. Acrobat Reader for Microsoft Windows platforms is not affected by this issue.
Exploit / POC
Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
Solution / Fix
Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Solution:
It is reported that Acrobat Reader (UNIX) version 5.0.9 is not vulnerable to this issue. This has not been confirmed at the moment.
SuSE has released advisory (SUSE-SA:2004:028), in the addendum of this advisory it is announced that an acroread fix to address this and other vulnerabilities is available on the SuSE updates FTP server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com
Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200408-14) to address multiple issues in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to update their computers:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=app-text/acroread-5.09"
emerge ">=app-text/acroread-5.09"
RedHat has released an advisory (RHSA-2004:432-08) to address Acrobat Reader issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Please see the advisory in Web references for more information.
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
Solution:
It is reported that Acrobat Reader (UNIX) version 5.0.9 is not vulnerable to this issue. This has not been confirmed at the moment.
SuSE has released advisory (SUSE-SA:2004:028), in the addendum of this advisory it is announced that an acroread fix to address this and other vulnerabilities is available on the SuSE updates FTP server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com
Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200408-14) to address multiple issues in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to update their computers:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=app-text/acroread-5.09"
emerge ">=app-text/acroread-5.09"
RedHat has released an advisory (RHSA-2004:432-08) to address Acrobat Reader issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Please see the advisory in Web references for more information.
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
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SuSE acroread-51611
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/update/9.0/patches/acroread-51611
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
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SuSE acroread-51591
SuSE Linux 9.0 & 9.1
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/patches/acroread-51591
S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
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SuSE acroread-51591
SuSE Linux 9.0 & 9.1
http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/patches/acroread-51591
References
Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
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