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TITLE:
Gentoo update for acroread

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29205

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29205/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Unknown, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive
information, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for acroread. This fixes a security issue
and some vulnerabilities, some of which have unknown impacts while
others can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system and
sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise
a user's system.

SOLUTION:
Update to "app-text/acroread-8.1.2" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24408:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24408/

SA28802:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28802/

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