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December 14, 2018Rewterz Threat Advisory – Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
December 14, 2018SEVERITY : Medium
CATEGORY: Vulnerability
PUBLISH DATE: December 14, 2018
ANALYSIS SUMMARY
A total of 89 vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, or bypass certain security restrictions, and compromise a vulnerable system.
- Multiple errors related to Buffer Errors can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
- Multiple unspecified errors can be exploited to dereference an untrusted pointer and subsequently execute arbitrary code.
- An error related to the Onix Indexing attack surface can be exploited to gain elevated privileges.
- An unspecified error can be exploited to bypass certain JavaScript API restrictions.
- Numerous use-after-free errors can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
- Multiple boundary errors can be exploited to trigger an out-of-bounds write memory access and subsequently execute arbitrary code.
- Multiple unspecified errors can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently execute arbitrary code.
- Multiple boundary errors can be exploited to trigger an out-of-bounds read memory access.
- Multiple integer overflow errors can be exploited to disclose certain memory contents.
- An unspecified error can be exploited to disclose otherwise restricted information.
Impact
Information Disclosure
Security Bypass
Privilege Escalation
Code Execution
Affected Vendors
Adobe
Affected Products
Adobe Acrobat DC 15.x
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.x
Adobe Acrobat 2017 17.x
Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017 17.x
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 19.x
Adobe Acrobat DC 19.x
Remediation
Update to a fixed version.
Acrobat DC / Acrobat Reader DC 2019 running on Windows and macOS:
Update to version 2019.010.20064.
Acrobat 2017 / Acrobat Reader DC 2017 running on Windows and macOS:
Update to version 2017.011.30110.
Acrobat DC / Acrobat Reader DC (Classic 2015) running on Windows and macOS:
Update to version 2015.006.30461.