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Bug 233383 (CVE-2008-2641) - app-text/acroread <8.1.2-r3 Javascript input validation vulnerability (CVE-2008-2641)
Summary: app-text/acroread <8.1.2-r3 Javascript input validation vulnerability (CVE-20...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2008-2641
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/security...
Whiteboard: A2 [glsa]
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-07-30 15:18 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-08-09 22:44 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-30 15:18:01 UTC 
CVE-2008-2641 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2641):
  Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.0.9 and earlier, and
  8.0 through 8.1.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
  (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors,
  related to an "input validation issue in a JavaScript method."
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-30 15:20:48 UTC 
For Unix: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3992
...
July 17, 2008 – Bulletin updated to include information for Unix version

Note that we fixed CVE-2008-0883 via bug 212367 already, so this is only the CVE-2008-2641 flaw.
Comment 2 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-01 18:09:47 UTC 
Thanks for telling me that they released an updated version, fixed in acroread-8.1.2-r3 now.
Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-02 11:53:59 UTC 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r3
Target keywords : "amd64 x86"
Comment 4 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-03 17:14:12 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 5 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-03 21:09:54 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 6 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-09 22:44:23 UTC 
GLSA 200808-10