Executive Summary

Summary
Title Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation
Informations
Name GLSA-200803-26 First vendor Publication 2008-03-18
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-03-18
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 3.7 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 1.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0883 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0883

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200803-26 (acroread)
File : nvt/glsa_200803_26.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42702 Adobe Reader for Linux acroread SSL Certificate Handling Symlink Arbitrary Fi...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-08-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0641.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-19 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200803-26.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_acroread-5041.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-02-27 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_acroread-5042.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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