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Secunia Advisory SA37141

Gentoo update for acroread
Secunia Advisory SA37141
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Release Date 2009-10-26
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
DoS
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
   
Operating System
Gentoo Linux
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0045 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-0048 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2979 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2980 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2981 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2982 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2983 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2985 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2986 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2988 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2990 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2991 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2993 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2994 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2996 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2997 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-2998 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-3431 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-3458 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-3459 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2009-3462 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, create arbitrary files on the users system, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA36983


Solution
Update to "app-text/acroread-9.2" or later.
Original Advisory
GLSA 200910-03:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200910-03.xml

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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