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Secunia Advisory SA29425

Gentoo update for acroread

Secunia Advisory

SA29425

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Release Date

2008-03-19

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-0883 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for acroread. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA29229

Solution
Update to "app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r1" or later.
Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml

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Gentoo update for acroread

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