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Does Symantec protect against the "Adobe Reader / Acrobat Font Parsing Buffer Overflow" Vulnerability

Created: 09 Sep 2010 | 1 comment
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Exploits for this vulnerability are detected as Bloodhound.Exploit.357

A writeup should be available shortly: http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2010-090901-2159-99

AntiVirus definitions are included in the following Definitions set (or higher):
Defs Version - 120908ax
Extended Defs Version - 9/8/2010 rev. 50
Sequence Number - 114797

AntiVirus Definitions can be downloaded via the following pages: http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions.jsp

Here are some useful inks:
Adobe (Vulnerability identifier: APSA10-02): http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html 
Secunia (Secunia Advisory SA41340): http://secunia.com/advisories/41340/ 
CVE (CVE number: CVE-2010-2883): http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-2883 

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Mick2009's picture
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2010
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Confirmation

Hello Lockdown Wizard,

You are correct!  I can confirm that, with the latest definitions, Symantec does provide protection against exploits that take advantage of this vulnerability.

The write-up for has not yet been posted, but there is a listing for it visible on http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/threatexplorer/index.jsp.

There are no corresponding IPS attack signatures possible for this threat.

Thanks and best regards,

Mick 

With thanks and best regards,

Mick