[ GLSA 200803-01 ] Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200803-01)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: March 02, 2008
Updated: March 05, 2008
Bug(s): #170177
ID: 200803-01

Synopsis

Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of Service, and cross-site request forgery attacks.

Background

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Affected Packages

Package: app-text/acroread
Vulnerable: < 8.1.2
Unaffected: >= 8.1.2
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader, including:

• A file disclosure when using file:// in PDF documents (CVE-2007-1199)
• Multiple buffer overflows in unspecified Javascript methods (CVE-2007-5659)
• An unspecified vulnerability in the Escript.api plugin (CVE-2007-5663)
• An untrusted search path (CVE-2007-5666)
• Incorrect handling of printers (CVE-2008-0667)
• An integer overflow when passing incorrect arguments to "printSepsWithParams" (CVE-2008-0726)

Other unspecified vulnerabilities have also been reported (CVE-2008-0655).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. A remote attacker could also perform cross-site request forgery attacks, or cause a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version: