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Gentoo update for acroread Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA29205  
Release Date: 2008-03-03

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Unknown
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x


CVE reference:CVE-2007-1199 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5659 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5663 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5666 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0655 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0667 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0726 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for acroread. This fixes a security issue and some vulnerabilities, some of which have unknown impacts while others can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system and sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's system.

Solution:
Update to "app-text/acroread-8.1.2" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml

Other References:
SA24408:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24408/

SA28802:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28802/



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