Sun Solaris Adobe Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 5 Aug 2008 4844 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability and a security issue in Adobe Reader in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and potentially by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

NOTE: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 on the x86 platform and OpenSolaris do not ship Adobe Reader.

Impact

Denial of Service
Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 8

Solutions

There is no patch available for this vulnerability currently.
Workaround
Do not load PDF files from untrusted sources and disable Javascript in the browser application.

Vulnerability Identifier

CVE-2008-0883
CVE-2008-2641

Source

Secunia
Sun