Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

Background

Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

Description

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

Impact

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

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-r1"