CVE-2002-1764

CVE-2002-1764 affects acroread/Adobe Reader 4.05 on Linux . The vulnerability is a local file overwrite via a symlink attack on temporary files, enabling a local user to overwrite arbitrary files. The connected OpenVAS entry corroborates a symlink attack vulnerability in Adobe Reader. No further ...

CVE-2002-1764

acroread in Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 on Linux allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...

GLSA-200408-14 : acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200408-14 acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly,...

acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

Background acroread is Adobe's Acrobat PDF reader for Linux. Description acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly, it fails to check for the backtick shell...

CVE-2001-1069

libCoolType library as used in Adobe Acrobat acroread on Linux creates the AdobeFnt.lst file with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to modify the file and possibly modify acroread's behavior...