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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!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>