Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 9.5, and 10.x before 10.1.2, on Windows and Mac OS X allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-14 (Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Reader, including an       integer overflow in TrueType Font handling (CVE-2012-0774) and multiple       unspecified errors which could cause memory corruption.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF       file, possibly resulting in  execution of arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Updated acroread packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).

This update fixes multiple security flaws in Adobe Reader. These flaws are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB12-08, listed in the References section. A specially crafted PDF file could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2012-0774, CVE-2012-0775, CVE-2012-0777)

All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 9.5.1, which is not vulnerable to these issues. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.

The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote host is earlier than 10.1.2 / 9.5, and therefore affected by multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities.  An attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted Reader file, resulting in arbitrary code execution. 

Adobe Reader 10.1.2 is the first 10.x release to include fixes for CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2011-4369.  These were previously fixed for 9.x releases in 9.4.7 (APSB11-30).

The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote host is earlier than 10.1.2 / 9.5, and therefore affected by multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities.  An attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted Acrobat file, resulting in arbitrary code execution. 

Adobe Acrobat 10.1.2 is the first 10.x release to include fixes for CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2011-4369.  These were previously fixed for 9.x releases in 9.4.7 (APSB11-30).

The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior or equal to 10.1.1 or 9.4.6. It is, therefore, affected by a memory corruption issue related to the Universal 3D (U3D) file format.
A remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to view a maliciously crafted PDF file, to cause an application crash or to execute arbitrary code.

Note that the Adobe Reader X user-specific option to use 'Protected Mode' prevents an exploit of this kind from being executed, but Nessus cannot test for this configuration option.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
59667	GLSA-201206-14 : Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
58676	RHEL 5 / 6 : acroread (RHSA-2012:0469)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
57484	Adobe Reader < 10.1.2 / 9.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB12-01)	Nessus	Windows	critical
57483	Adobe Acrobat < 10.1.2 / 9.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB12-01)	Nessus	Windows	critical
57044	Adobe Reader <= 10.1.1 / 9.4.6 U3D Memory Corruption (APSA11-04, APSB11-28, APSB11-30, APSB12-01) (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2011-4371

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