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Adobe Reader for Linux Insecure Temporary File Creation
Secunia Advisory: SA14457
Release Date: 2005-06-29
Last Update: 2005-07-11
Popularity: 11,091 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Adobe Reader for Unix, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information.

The problem is caused due to temporary files being created with permissions based on the user's umask in the "/tmp" folder under certain circumstances when documents are opened.

Successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to read arbitrary users' documents.

The security issue has been confirmed in version 5.0.10. The vendor has reported that version 5.0.9 is also affected.

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