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Gentoo GLSA-200412-12 Normal Risk: Adobe Acrobat Reader Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2004
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Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: December 16, 2004 Bugs: #74406 ID: 200412-12

Synopsis ======= Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Adobe Acrobat Reader is a utility used to view PDF files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/acroread < 5.10 >= 5.10
========== A buffer overflow has been discovered in the email processing of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This flaw exists in the mailListIsPdf function, which checks if the inpu...

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