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Sid
3-16389

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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:
Unspecified vulnerability in an ActiveX control in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown 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-2009-2987:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2987
  
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