Last night I came up with a proof of concept to exploit this locally: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070103/pdf-xss-can-compromise-your-machine/ If you have Adobe 7.0 installed there is a at least one standard PDF installed on the local drive. Ouch. -RSnake http://ha.ckers.org/ http://sla.ckers.org/ http://ha.ckers.org/fierce/ On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Larry Seltzer wrote:
"According to public reports, this vulnerability is addressed in AdobeAcrobat Reader 8.0." I've actually tested it. On Reader 8 Acrobat you get a messagebox that says "This operation is not allowed" Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web Security Mailing List: http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/ The Web Security Mailing List Archives: http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/ http://www.webappsec.org/rss/websecurity.rss [RSS Feed]