glsa-200412-12.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="200412-12">
  <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>December 16, 2004</announced>
  <revised>December 16, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>74406</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/acroread" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">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 email processing of
    Adobe Acrobat Reader. This flaw exists in the mailListIsPdf function,
    which checks if the input file is an email message containing a PDF
    file.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send the victim a specially-crafted email
    and PDF attachment, which would trigger the buffer overflow and
    possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions
    of the user running Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    </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-5.10&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1152">CAN-2004-1152</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331153.html">Adobe Announcement</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:22:59 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:18:04 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:02:05 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>