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openSUSE 2010-048 Moderate: Acroread Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2010
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Meticulously designed PDF files might freeze acrobat reader or result in running unauthorized commands, patches released. 

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Summary

Specially crafted PDF documents could crash acroread or lead to execution of Specially crafted PDF documents could crash acroread or lead to execution of arbitrary code. acroread was updated to version 9.4 which addresses the issues. arbitrary code. acroread was updated to version 9.4 which addresses the issues. Please see Adobe's site for more information: [More...]

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security advisory security update code execution remote execution acroread PDF exploit openSUSE

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