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Re: [Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Joey Mengele wrote:

Dear Fatboy,

Let's put aside for a minute the fact that you have no idea what


You like people on the heavy side? Psst... call me.



you are talking about and let's also, for the benefit of this very
valuable debate, assume your definition is correct. First, please
prove this bug was never used in the wild. After that, please prove
your credibility in the realm of defining words related to illegal
computer hacking. Thanks.

J

P.S. Talking about botnets doesn't count to satisfy part 1 OR part 2

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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:29:22 -0400 Gadi Evron <ge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Impressive vulnerability, new. Not a 0day.

Not to start an argument again, but fact is, people stop calling
everything a 0day unless it is, say WMF, ANI, etc. exploited in
the wild
without being known.

I don't like the mis-use of this buzzword.

        Gadi.


On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:


http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-pdf-pwns-windows

I am closing the season with the following HIGH Risk

vulnerability:

Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise

your

Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it

takes

is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds

one.


The issue is quite critical given the fact that PDF documents

are in

the core of today's modern business. This and the fact that it

may

take a while for Adobe to fix their closed source product, are

the

reasons why I am not going to publish any POCs. You have to take

my

word for it. The POCs will be released when an update is

available.


Adobe's representatives can contact me from the usual place. My

advise

for you is not to open any PDF files (locally or remotely).

Other PDF

viewers might be vulnerable too. The issues was verified on

Windows XP

SP2 with the latest Adobe Reader 8.1, although previous versions

and

other setups are also affected.

A formal summary and conclusion of the GNUCITIZEN bug hunt to be

expected soon.


cheers

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pdp (architect) | petko d. petkov
http://www.gnucitizen.org



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