CVE-2008-0883

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-02-21
Bugzilla:
436263: CVE-2008-0883 acroread: insecure handling of temporary files

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

acroread in Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files related to SSL certificate handling.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0883 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-0883

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2008:0641 2008-07-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (acroread) RHSA-2008:0641 2008-07-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (acroread) RHSA-2008:0641 2008-07-21

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