Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
app-text/acroread	< 8.1.2-r1	>= 8.1.2-r1	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #212367

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

2. Impact Information

Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.

SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates (CVE-2008-0883).

A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r1"

4. References

Page updated March 18, 2008

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