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Sid
16321

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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. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
Integer overflow in Adobe Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

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Affected Systems:
adobe acrobat 7.0
adobe acrobat 7.0.1
adobe acrobat 7.0.2
adobe acrobat 7.0.3
adobe acrobat 7.0.4
adobe acrobat 7.0.5
adobe acrobat 7.0.6
adobe acrobat 7.0.7
adobe acrobat 7.0.8
adobe acrobat 7.0.9
adobe acrobat 7.1.0
adobe acrobat 7.1.1
adobe acrobat 7.1.3
adobe acrobat 8.0.0
adobe acrobat 8.1
adobe acrobat 8.1.1
adobe acrobat 8.1.2
adobe acrobat 8.1.3
adobe acrobat 8.1.4
adobe acrobat 8.1.6
adobe acrobat 9.0
adobe acrobat 9.1.1
adobe acrobat 9.1.2
adobe acrobat 9.1.3

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Attack Scenarios:
An attacker can host a web site that will return code of their choosing to the object when a victim clicks on a malicious link.

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Ease of Attack:
Difficult.

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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-2009-2995:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2995
 
Common Weakness Enumeration:
http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/120.html
 
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification:
http://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/100.html

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