Rule

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Sid
15492

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Acrobat.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
The customDictionaryOpen spell method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader 8.1.4 and 9.1 on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that triggers a call to this method with a long string in the second argument.

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Affected Systems:
Adobe Acrobat 9.0
Adobe Acrobat 9.1

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-1493:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1493
  
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