From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 02:06:22 CDT

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TITLE:
Adobe Acrobat Reader UnixAppOpenFilePerform Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15934

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15934/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/389/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in
"UnixAppOpenFilePerform()" when Acrobat Reader is opening a document
containing a "/Filespec" tag. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Acrobat Reader
by tricking the user to open a specially crafted PDF document.

The vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Acrobat Reader for Unix
version 5.0.9 and 5.0.10.

SOLUTION:
-- Linux and Solaris Platforms --
Update to Adobe Reader 7.0

-- IBM-AIX and HP-UX Platforms --
Update to Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.11

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
iDEFENSE

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/329083.html

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=279&type=vulnerabilities

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