Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for acroread. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for acroread
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51959
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RELEASE DATE:
2013-01-23
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for acroread. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions and compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA51791
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2013:0138-1:
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html
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