GLSA 200803-01: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/02/2008
Bugs:	#170177
ID:	200803-01

Synopsis

Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of Service, and cross-site request forgery attacks.

Background

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-text/acroread	< 8.1.2	>= 8.1.2	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader, including:

A file disclosure when using file:// in PDF documents (CVE-2007-1199)
Multiple buffer overflows in unspecified Javascript methods (CVE-2007-5659)
An unspecified vulnerability in the Escript.api plugin (CVE-2007-5663)
An untrusted search path (CVE-2007-5666)
Incorrect handling of printers (CVE-2008-0667)
An integer overflow when passing incorrect arguments to "printSepsWithParams" (CVE-2008-0726)

Other unspecified vulnerabilities have also been reported (CVE-2008-0655).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. A remote attacker could also perform cross-site request forgery attacks, or cause a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/acroread-8.1.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml

Concerns?

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