Gentoo 200701-16 Moderate: Adobe Acrobat Reader Remote Code Execution
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January 23, 2007
Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of Service, and cross-site scripting attacks.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 22, 2007
Bugs: #159874
ID: 200701-16
Synopsis
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Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of
Service, and cross-site scripting attacks.
Background
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Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/acroread < 7.0.9 >= 7.0.9
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Adobe Acrobat Reader in stand-alone mode is vulnerable to remote code
execution via heap corruption when loading a specially crafted PDF
file.
The browser plugin r...
Resolution
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Availability
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