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Adobe Reader / Acrobat Two Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15827  
Release Date: 2005-06-28

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Apple Macintosh OS X

Software:Adobe Acrobat 7.x
Adobe Reader 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-1623 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-1624 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat for Mac OS, which may grant elevated permissions on certain folders or can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary local programs on a user's system.

1) An unspecified error can be exploited to execute arbitrary programs already installed on a user's system via a specially crafted PDF document containing JavaScript.

2) A security issue in the updater causes Safari Frameworks folder permissions to be elevated for all users when downloading updates.

The vulnerabilities affect versions 7.0 and 7.0.1 for Mac OS.

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
Update to version 7.0.2.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) The vendor credits Aandi Inston.
2) The vendor credits John C. Welch.

Original Advisory:
Adobe Systems:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331709.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331711.html



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