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acroread: UUDecode filename buffer overflow

Package(s):acroread CVE #(s):
Created:August 16, 2004 Updated:August 17, 2004
Description: acroread contains two errors in the handling of UUEncoded filenames. First, it fails to check the length of a filename before copying it into a fixed size buffer and, secondly, it fails to check for the backtick shell metacharacter in the filename before executing a command with a shell. By enticing a user to open a PDF with a specially crafted filename, an attacker could execute arbitrary code or programs with the permissions of the user running acroread.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200408-14 2004-08-15

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