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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 This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Operating System
Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0045 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2007-0048 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2979 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2980 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2981 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2982 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2983 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2985 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2986 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2988 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2990 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2991 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2993 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2994 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2996 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2997 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2998 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3431 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3458 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3459 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3462 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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 to Secunia VIM customers

Deep Links
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