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Secunia Security Advisory 23138

Secunia Security Advisory 23138
Posted Nov 30, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Some bugs have been discovered in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which may cause an included ActiveX control to crash.

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Secunia Security Advisory 23138

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To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of
additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the
advisories to German.

The improvements will help our customers to get a better
understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated,
our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios.

This includes:
* Reason for rating
* Extended description
* Extended solution
* Exploit code or links to exploit code
* Deep links

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TITLE:
Adobe Reader / Acrobat AcroPDF ActiveX Control Bugs

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23138

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23138/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Adobe Reader 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/4546/
Adobe Acrobat 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/4594/

DESCRIPTION:
Some bugs have been discovered in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat,
which may cause an included ActiveX control to crash.

The bugs are caused due to errors in the AcroPDF ActiveX control
(AcroPDF.dll) when processing arbitrary arguments passed to the
"setPageMode()", "setLayoutMode()", "setNamedDest()", and
"LoadFile()" methods.

NOTE: Secunia has currently decided to treat these issues as crash
bugs as further internal research and dialogue with the vendor
indicates that no risk of potential remote code execution has been
proven. Currently, only crashes have been confirmed by locally
executing a WSF file (Windows Script File), which is considered an
untrusted file type.

The bugs are confirmed in Adobe Reader 7.0.5 and 7.0.8 for Windows.
They have also been reported in Adobe Reader 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 and
Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 on the
Windows platform. Prior versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends deleting AcroPDF.dll (this workaround will
prevent PDF documents from opening in Internet Explorer).

The vendor is currently working on an update for version 7.0.8 for
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported in the "LoadFile()" method by Michal Bucko
(sapheal), hack.pl.
Other bugs reported by FrSIRT.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Adobe Systems:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
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Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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