Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to remote code execution, Denial of Service, and cross-site request forgery attacks. acroread March 02, 2008 March 05, 2008: 05 170177 remote 8.1.2 8.1.2

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader, including:

A file disclosure when using file:// in PDF documents (CVE-2007-1199)
Multiple buffer overflows in unspecified Javascript methods (CVE-2007-5659)
An unspecified vulnerability in the Escript.api plugin (CVE-2007-5663)
An untrusted search path (CVE-2007-5666)
Incorrect handling of printers (CVE-2008-0667)
An integer overflow when passing incorrect arguments to "printSepsWithParams" (CVE-2008-0726)

Other unspecified vulnerabilities have also been reported (CVE-2008-0655).

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted document, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. A remote attacker could also perform cross-site request forgery attacks, or cause a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/acroread-8.1.2"

CVE-2007-1199 CVE-2007-5659 CVE-2007-5663 CVE-2007-5666 CVE-2008-0655 CVE-2008-0667 CVE-2008-0726 rbu p-y p-y