Bug 469882 (CVE-2008-4815)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4815 Adobe Reader: insecure RPATH flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, kreilly, krh
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4815
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Bug Depends On:	469916, 469917, 469918
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-11-04 16:16:49 UTC

Adobe Reader was built to use insecure RPATH in the binary.

This issue could possibly be exploited by a local attacker to run arbitrary
code as some other user if victim user can be convinced to run Adobe Reader
in an attacker controlled directory with specially crafted content.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-11-05 08:24:03 UTC

Public now via upstream security bulletin:
  http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html

Comment 4 Red Hat Product Security 2008-11-13 15:36:49 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html