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SUSE-SA:2005:047: acroread

high Nessus Plugin ID 19926

Synopsis

The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:047 (acroread).


A buffer overflow was found in the core application plug-in for the Adobe Reader, that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2005-2470.

Note that for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and SUSE Linux Desktop 1 Acrobat Reader support was already discontinued by an earlier announcement.

Solution

http://www.suse.de/security/advisories/2005_47_acroread.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19926

File Name: suse_SA_2005_047.nasl

Version: 1.11

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/SuSE/rpm-list