Advisory Published

RHSA-2010:0060: Critical: acroread security update

First published: Wed Jan 20 2010(Updated: )

Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document<br>Format (PDF).<br>Adobe Reader 8.1.7 is vulnerable to critical security flaws and should no<br>longer be used. A specially-crafted PDF file could cause Adobe Reader to<br>crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe<br>Reader when opened. (CVE-2009-4324, CVE-2009-3953, CVE-2009-3954,<br>CVE-2009-3955, CVE-2009-3959, CVE-2009-3956)<br>Adobe have discontinued support for Adobe Reader 8 for Linux. Adobe Reader<br>9 for Linux is not compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. An<br>alternative PDF file viewer available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is<br>xpdf.<br>This update removes the acroread packages due to their known security<br>vulnerabilities.

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