Monday, 9 July 2012

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a remote memory corruption vulnerability

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a remote memory corruption vulnerability

Release Date  2012-07-02 
Severity: High

Software: 
·         Adobe Acrobat Standard 10.1.1 and prior
 Impact  :
       ·         Denial-of-service

CVE Reference(s)
CVE-2011-4370

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability is reported in Abode Acrobat. An attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely cause denial-of-service conditions.

Solution
Update to a fixed version.

Original Advisory
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-08.html