Upstream information

CVE-2009-2993 at MITRE

Description

The JavaScript for Acrobat API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 does not properly implement the (1) Privileged Context and (2) Safe Path restrictions for unspecified JavaScript methods, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via the cPath parameter in a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  NVD
Base Score 9.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 546083 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:


Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 acroread Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 acroread Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 acroread Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 acroread Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:00:32 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 9 17:08:52 2024