[sec-labs] Adobe Acrobat Reader <=5.0.7 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability + PoC code

From: sec-labs team (team@sec-labs.hack.pl)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 08:08:30 PDT

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         sec-labs team proudly presents:
     
     Buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.7 and earlier
     by mcbethh
     29/06/2003
     
   I. BACKGROUND
     
     quote from documentation: 
     'The Acrobat Reader allows anyone to view, navigate, and print documents 
     in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).'
     
     However there is Acrobat Reader 6.0 for windows nad MacOS, version 5.0.7
     is last for unix.
     
   II. DESCRIPTION
     
     There is buffer overflow vulnerability in WWWLaunchNetscape function. It
     copies link address to 256 bytes (in 5.0.5 version) buffer until '\0' is
     found. If link is longer than 256 bytes return address is overwritten. 
     Notice that user have to execute (click on it) our link to exploit this 
     vulnerability. User also have to have netscape browser in preferences, 
     but it is default setting. 
     
   III. IMPACT
     
     If somebody click on a link from .pdf file specialy prepared by attacker,
     malicious code can be executed with his privileges.
     
   IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
     
     Proof of concept exploit is attached. It doesn't contain shellcode nor
     valid return address. It just shows that return address can be overwriten
     with any value. Use gdb to see it, because acroread will not crash. 
     
     

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