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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200803-26">
+ <title>Adobe Acrobat Reader: Insecure temporary file creation</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ An insecure temporary file creation vulnerability has been discovered in
+ Adobe Acrobat Reader.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">acroread</product>
+ <announced>2008-03-18</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-03-18</revised>
+ <bug>212367</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/acroread" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">8.1.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">8.1.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader released by Adobe.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ SUSE reported that the "acroread" wrapper script does not create
+ temporary files in a secure manner when handling SSL certificates
+ (CVE-2008-0883).
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite
+ arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Adobe Acrobat Reader users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0883">CVE-2008-0883</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-16T13:19:39Z">
+ mfleming
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-03-17T11:44:20Z">
+ mfleming
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-03-18T13:28:58Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>