Gentoo: GLSA-200901-09 Normal: Adobe Reader Arbitrary Code Execution
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January 13, 2009
Adobe Reader is vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-09
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Reader: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: January 13, 2009
Bugs: #225483
ID: 200901-09
Synopsis
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Adobe Reader is vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) is a closed-source PDF
reader.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/acroread < 8.1.3 >= 8.1.3
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* An unspecified vulnerability can be triggered by a malformed PDF
document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf (CVE-2008-2549).
* Peter Vreugdenhil, Dyon Balding, Will Dormann, Damian Frizz...
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