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Red Hat 4-5 Critical: Acroread Security Update RHSA-2010:0114

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential patch for acroread resolves a pair of vulnerabilities and a flaw impacting Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Updated acroread packages that fix two security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).
This update fixes two vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. These vulnerabilities are summarized on the Adobe Security Advisory APSB10-07 page listed in the References section. A specially-crafted PDF file could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2010-0186, CVE-2010-0188)
This update also fixes a bug where, on some systems, attempting to install or upgrade the acroread packages failed due to a package dependency issue. (BZ#557506)
All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 9.3.1, which is not vulnerable to these issues and fixes this bug. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0186 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0188 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras:
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras:
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras:
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras:
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el4.i386.rpm
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client):
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server):
i386: acroread-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
x86_64: acroread-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm acroread-plugin-9.3.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0114-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0114.html
Issue date: 2010-02-18

Topic

Updated acroread packages that fix two security issues and a bug are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 5 Supplementary.This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat critical bug fix security fix acroread

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

557506 - acroread requires openldap-devel which is in Workstation/

563819 - CVE-2010-0186 flash-plugin: unauthorized cross-domain requests (APSB10-06)

566087 - CVE-2010-0188 acroread: unspecified code execution flaw

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