glsa-200803-26.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200803-26">
  <title>Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
  <synopsis>
    An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in
    Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">acroread</product>
  <announced>March 18, 2008</announced>
  <revised>March 18, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>212367</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/acroread" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.1.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.1.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create
    temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates
    (CVE-2008-0883).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite
    arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0883">CVE-2008-0883</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:19:39 +0000">
    mfleming
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:44:20 +0000">
    mfleming
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:28:58 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>