Adobe has announced a forthcoming update to Adobe Acrobat Reader that will address critical security issues: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-17.html
The bulletin addresses: * These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2862). * These updates further mitigate a social engineering attack that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-1240). * These updates incorporate the Adobe Flash Player update as noted in Security Bulletin APSB10-16. The first issue is tracked via bug #621687 and the Flash Player-related issues are tracked via bug #622947. CVE-2010-1240 was previously noted to have been corrected in APSB10-15 (see bug #609203), so Adobe should have used a different CVE name here instead.
All the issue are public now via updated APSB10-17. (In reply to comment #2) > CVE-2010-1240 was previously noted to have been corrected in APSB10-15 (see bug > #609203), so Adobe should have used a different CVE name here instead. Yes, looks like and incorrect use of original CVE for what should have got a new CVE for an incomplete fix. More details about the issue, including PoC PDFs: Original discovery and 9.3.3 fix: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/ http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/06/29/quickpost-no-escape-from-pdf/ Report that 9.3.3 fix is incomplete: http://blog.bkis.com/en/adobe-fix-still-allows-escape-from-pdf/ Demo PDF files to not seem to trigger any launch file dialog on Linux Adobe Reader version.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Extras for RHEL 4 Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2010:0636 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0636.html