From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 19:10:04 CST

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TITLE:
Red Hat update for acroread

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32700

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32700/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/15166/
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/14052/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 3
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/8742/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 4
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/8743/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges or by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

For more information:
SA29773

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2008-0974:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29773:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29773/

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