Adobe Reader 'acroread' Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Linux

Adobe Reader is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : acroread (RHSA-2008:0641)

Updated acroread packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, 4 Extras, and 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Adobe Acrobat Reader allows users to view and pri...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200803-26 (acroread)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200803-26. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: acroread security update

Updated acroread packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, 4 Extras, and 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Adobe Acrobat Reader allows users to view and pri...

GLSA-200803-26 : Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200803-26 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation SUSE reported that the 'acroread' wrapper script does not create temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates CVE-2008-0883. Impact : A local...

CVE-2008-0883

Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 8.1.2 is affected by CVE-2008-0883 due to an insecure temporary-file creation in the startup/SSL-related handling, enabling a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Affected component: acroread wrapper script; root cause is insecure tempo...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : acroread (acroread-5041)

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 contained a /tmp race in its 'acroread' wrapper script in the SSL certificate handling. CVE-2008-0883 Furthermore it contained several duplicated copies of system libraries, which have been removed for this update to make sure they are up-to-date security wise by using...