Secunia Security Advisory - Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability and a security issue in Adobe Reader in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and potentially by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31352
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31352/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/
DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability and a security issue in Adobe
Reader in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and
potentially by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA29229
SA30832
NOTE: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 on the x86 platform and
OpenSolaris do not ship Adobe Reader.
SOLUTION:
Do not load PDF files from untrusted sources and disable Javascript
in the browser application.
A final resolution is pending completion.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-240106-1
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29299:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29229/
SA30832:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30832/
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