"Joe Morris (NTM)"
As far as I know, Acrobat Reader 5.0.9 distributed by Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/) fixes a security hole in the 5.0.8 version.
Do you know which one?
No, I don't. On http://freshmeat.net/projects/acrobatreader/?branch_id=92&release_id=164883 I've found: <cite> Changes: A security patch was applied that solves a couple of problems reported with malformed uuencoded PDF files. </cite> I don't know how serious the problem is.
joe@jmorris:~> rpm -q --changelog acroread <snip> * Mon Aug 11 2003 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Security update to version 5.08 from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/5.x/linux-508.tar.gz Reason: A security patch was applied that solves a problem reported with long URLs in weblinks which can cause a buffer overrun. See http://www.heise.de/security/news/meldung/38468 and bugzilla.suse.de bug number 27666
<snip> If this was it, it was backported.
According to the link above, the release dates are: 5.0.8 - 25-Aug-2003 5.0.9 - 23-Jun-2004 If the 5.0.9 contains patches available only after 25-Aug-2003 then the update from Aug 11 2003 mentioned in the changelog cannot contain them. -- A.M.