Title : Redhat Security Update Fixes Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1025 CVE ID : CVE-2005-1625 - CVE-2005-1841 CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-07-11
Technical Description
Redhat has released a security patch to correct two vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The first flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the "UnixAppOpenFilePerform()" function when handling documents containing a malformed "/Filespec" tag, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to open a specially crafted PDF document. The second issue is caused due to temporary files being created with permissions based on a user's umask in the "/tmp" folder under certain circumstances when documents are opened, which could be exploited by local users to view other users' PDF documents. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0973
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