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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0883

Original release date:03/06/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:3.7 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/06/2008)
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.

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d8c48c63359fc807624182696d3d149c.html
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d8c48c63359fc807624182696d3d149c.html
External Source: BID
Name: 28091
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28091
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0641
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0641.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2289
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2289
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0765
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0765/references
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 240106
Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-240106-1
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31352
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31352
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31136
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31136
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29229
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29229
External Source: XF
Name: adobe-reader-acroread-symlink(40987)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/40987
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019539
Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019539
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200803-26
Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-26.xml
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-02.html
Hyperlink:http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-02.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29425
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29425
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29242
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29242
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:005
Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00001.html

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:open_suse:10.1
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:open_suse:10.2
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:open_suse:10.3
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.0::ppc
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.0::x86
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.0::x86_64
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.1::ppc
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.1::x86
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10.1::x86_64
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10::enterprise_desktop
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10::enterprise_server
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:10:sp1:enterprise_desktop
spacerspacerline trunkNav control imagecpe:/o:suse:suse_linux_desktop:10
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spacerspacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.1.2
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0883