gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200507-09.xml

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

<glsa id="200507-09">
  <title>Adobe Acrobat Reader: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    Adobe Acrobat Reader is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to
    remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">acroread</product>
  <announced>July 11, 2005</announced>
  <revised>July 11, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>98101</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/acroread" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">5.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Adobe Acrobat Reader is a utility used to view PDF files.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A buffer overflow has been discovered in the
    UnixAppOpenFilePerform() function, which is called when Adobe Acrobat
    Reader tries to open a file with the "\Filespec" tag.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing a user to open a specially crafted PDF document, a
    remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
    code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    Since Adobe will most likely not update the 5.0 series of Adobe
    Acrobat Reader for Linux, all users should upgrade to the latest
    available version of the 7.0 series:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/acroread-7.0&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1625">CAN-2005-1625</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=279&amp;type=vulnerabilities&amp;flashstatus=true">iDEFENSE Security Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329083.html">Adobe Security Advisory</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:39:08 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:11:50 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:37:26 +0000">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>