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Gentoo: GLSA-200901-09 Normal: Adobe Reader Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2009
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Update your Adobe Reader to safeguard against potential code execution linked to security flaws. The risk level is moderate, with exploits being publicly available.
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 ======= Adobe Reader is vulnerable to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Adobe Reader (formerly Adobe Acrobat Reader) is a closed-source PDF reader.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/acroread < 8.1.3 >= 8.1.3
========== * 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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