Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for acroread
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32700
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32700/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/15166/
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/14052/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 3
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/8742/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 4
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/8743/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
For more information:
SA29773
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2008-0974:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29773:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29773/
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