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TITLE:
Red Hat update for acroread

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31136

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31136/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 3
http://secunia.com/product/8742/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras v. 4
http://secunia.com/product/8743/
RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/product/14052/
RHEL Desktop Supplementary (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/product/15166/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for acroread. This fixes a security
issue and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA29229
SA30832

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0641.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29229:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29229/

SA30832:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30832/

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