RHEL 4 / 5 : acroread (RHSA-2010:0114)

high Nessus Plugin ID 44665

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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 summarized on the Adobe Security Advisory APSB10-07 page 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-2010-0186, CVE-2010-0188)

This update also fixes a bug where, on some systems, attempting to install or upgrade the acroread packages failed due to a package dependency issue. (BZ#557506)

All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 9.3.1, which is not vulnerable to these issues and fixes this bug. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected acroread and / or acroread-plugin packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0186

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-0188

https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-07.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0114

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44665

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0114.nasl

Version: 1.33

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2010

Updated: 3/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0188

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:acroread, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:acroread-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2010

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Adobe Acrobat Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0186, CVE-2010-0188

BID: 38195, 38198

CWE: 94

RHSA: 2010:0114