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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-14 Normal: Acroread Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA-200408-14 warns of a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader that could allow code execution.
acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames that may lead to execution of arbitrary code or programs.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-14
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow
      Date: August 15, 2004
      Bugs: #60205
        ID: 200408-14


Synopsis
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acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames
that may lead to execution of arbitrary code or programs.

Background
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acroread is Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader for Linux.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  app-text/acroread       <= 5.08                           >= 5.09

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acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames.
First, it fails to check the length of a ...
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