SUSE SLED11 Security Update : acroread (SUSE-SU-2013:1967-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83605

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Adobe has discontinued the support of Adobe Reader for Linux in June 2013.

Newer security problems and bugs are no longer fixed.

As the Adobe Reader is binary only software and we cannot provide a replacement, SUSE declares the acroread package of Adobe Reader as being out of support and unmaintained.

If you do not need Acrobat Reader, we recommend to uninstall the 'acroread' package.

This update removes the Acrobat Reader PDF plugin to avoid automatic exploitation by clicking on web pages with embedded PDFs.

The stand alone 'acroread' binary is still available, but again, we do not recommend to use it.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-acroread-8689

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp2-acroread-8688

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83605

File Name: suse_SU-2013-1967-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:acroread, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:acroread_ja

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2013

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