Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Description

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).

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

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

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