Gentoo: GLSA-200803-26 Normal: Adobe Acrobat Reader File Handling Threat
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March 18, 2008
An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-26
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation
Date: March 18, 2008
Bugs: #212367
ID: 200803-26
Synopsis
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An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered
in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Background
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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 < 8.1.2-r1 >= 8.1.2-r1
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SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create
temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates
(CVE-2008-0883).
Impact
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A local attacker coul...
Resolution
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Availability
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