RHSA-2010:0934 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated acroread packages that fix two security issues are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

[Updated 7th December 2010]
The package list in this erratum has been updated to make the packages
available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras IA32 channels on the
Red Hat Network.

Description

Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document
Format (PDF).

This update fixes two vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. These
vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB10-28, listed
in the References section. A specially-crafted PDF file could cause Adobe
Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running
Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2010-3654, CVE-2010-4091)

All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain
Adobe Reader version 9.4.1, which is not vulnerable to these issues. All
running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take
effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4ES x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4ES i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4AS x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4AS i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 647525 - CVE-2010-3654 acroread/flash-plugin: critical vulnerablility (APSA10-05, APSB10-26)
• BZ - 651133 - CVE-2010-4091 acroread: remote DoS or possible arbitrary code execution via EScript.api plugin

CVEs

• CVE-2010-3654
• CVE-2010-4091

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-28.html