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Secunia Advisory SA15827

Adobe Reader / Acrobat Two Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA15827
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Release Date 2005-06-28
   
Popularity 17,601 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Privilege escalation
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X

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

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-1623 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1624 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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.


Solution
Update to version 7.0.2.
Further details available in Customer Area

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

Deep Links
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