Actively exploited · Published Mar 19, 2009 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2009-0927
High 8.8 Exploited
In plain English
A high-severity stack buffer overflow in Reader and Acrobat from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 25, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 96.6% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA guidance
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Federal agencies must remediate by Apr 15, 2022.
Official description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9 before 9.1, 8 before 8.1.3 , and 7 before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0658.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-121 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-014 x_refsource_MISC
- 9579 exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- 34169 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- 34790 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- 1021861 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
- ADV-2009-0770 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
- 34490 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- SUSE-SA:2009:014 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- 20090324 ZDI-09-014: Adobe Acrobat getIcon() Stack Overflow Vulnerability mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- 34706 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- 256788 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT
- GLSA-200904-17 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- SUSE-SR:2009:009 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- ADV-2009-1019 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
- adobe-unspecified-javascript-code-execution(49312) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-0927 government-resource