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Gentoo: GLSA-201306-15 Moderate: Adobe Acrobat Various Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Adobe Acrobat on Gentoo exhibits several security flaws that could potentially lead to remote code execution and denial of service incidents.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct various other attacks.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Reader, including an integer overflow in TrueType Font handling (CVE-2012-0774) and multiple unspecified errors which could cause memory corruption.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo code execution remote execution moderate threat adobe reader

Resolution

All Adobe Reader users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/acroread-9.5.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-4370 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4370 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-4371 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4371 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-4372 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4372 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-4373 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4373 [ 5 ] CVE-2012-0774 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0774 [ 6 ] CVE-2012-0775 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0775 [ 7 ] CVE-2012-0776 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0776 [ 8 ] CVE-2012-0777 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0777

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-14
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 22, 2012
Bugs: #405949, #411499
ID: 201206-14

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo code execution remote execution moderate threat adobe reader

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader might allow remote attackersto execute arbitrary code or conduct various other attacks.

Background

Adobe Reader is a closed-source PDF reader.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/acroread < 9.5.1 >= 9.5.1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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