Ubuntu Japanese Kaizen Project

Adobe Reader JavaScript Method Handling Vulnerability(CVE-2008-2641)

Bug #242697 reported by Fumihito YOSHIDA
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Japanese Kaizen Project
Fix Released
High
Jun Kobayashi

Bug Description

A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe recommends users of Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader install the 8.1.2 Security Update 1 patch.

please see http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-15.html

Linux version of Adobe Reader is also affected, But vendor patch has not released.....

CVE References

Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito)
Changed in ubuntu-jp-improvement:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote :

New packages from upstream vendor. So, archive_url needs change.

Revision history for this message
Jun Kobayashi (jkbys) wrote :

8.1.2 SU1をインストールするパッケージをリリースしました。

Changed in ubuntu-jp-improvement:
assignee: nobody → jkbys
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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