Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some vulnerabilities, some of which have unknown impacts, while others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for acroread
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29065
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29065/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Unknown, Hijacking, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/14052/
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/15166/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 3
http://secunia.com/product/8742/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 4
http://secunia.com/product/8743/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, some of which have unknown impacts, while others can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's
system.
For more information:
SA23483
SA28802
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0144.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA23483:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23483/
SA28802:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28802/
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