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RHEL 5 : acroread (RHSA-2009:0478)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40744

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:0478 advisory.

 Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).

 Two flaws were discovered in Adobe Reader's JavaScript API. A PDF file containing malicious JavaScript instructions could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader. (CVE-2009-1492, CVE-2009-1493)

 All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 8.1.5, which is not vulnerable to these issues. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL acroread package based on the guidance in RHSA-2009:0478.

See Also

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?492a6683

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498322

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0478

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40744

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0478.nasl

Version: 1.32

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2009

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

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-2009-1492

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 5/13/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1492, CVE-2009-1493

BID: 34736, 34740

RHSA: 2009:0478