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
- Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1
- Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1
- Debian Linux 2.2
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.1
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 8.0
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.2
- Mandriva Linux Mandrake 7.1
- Redhat Linux 7.3
- Redhat Linux 7.1
- Redhat Linux 7.0
- Slackware Linux 8.0
- Slackware Linux 7.1
- Slackware Linux 7.0
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
- SuSE Linux 8.0
- SuSE Linux 7.1
Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0
Not Vulnerable: Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0.9
+ Gentoo Linux
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Connectivity Server
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Database Server 0
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ 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
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 8.2
+ SuSE Linux 8.1
+ SuSE Linux 8.0 i386
+ SuSE Linux 8.0
+ SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
+ SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
+ SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
+ SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7

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.

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]>.

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

References

Adobe Acrobat Reader Shell Metacharacter Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

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