GLSA 200803-26: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation
Date:	03/18/2008
Bugs:	#212367
ID:	200803-26

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Background

Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-text/acroread	< 8.1.2-r1	>= 8.1.2-r1	All supported architectures

Description

SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates (CVE-2008-0883).

Impact

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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-r1"

References

CVE-2008-0883

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml

Concerns?

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