Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader. acroread 2008-03-18 2008-03-18: 01 212367 local 8.1.2-r1 8.1.2-r1

Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates (CVE-2008-0883).

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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-r1"

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