bugtraq - Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:22:17 +1000
From: Brad Hards <bradh@...gmouth.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries


On Sunday 19 June 2011 11:37:33 Stefan Kanthak wrote:
> soft Xpansion <www.soft-xpansion.com> distributes their (freeware)
> products "Perfect PDF 7 Master" and "Perfect PDF 7 Reader" (the
> current files are dated 2011-05-10) with OUTDATED and VULNERABLE
> Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries VCRedist_x86.exe/VCRedist_x64.exe
> version 9.0.30729.17 of 2008-08-08.
> 
> These libraries have been updated since then at least twice due to
> vulnerabilities, see
> <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-035.mspx>
> and
> <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-025.mspx>
Did you check if these vulnerabilities be exploited via this product? I'm not 
suggesting that its OK to distribute outdated libs, just to understand the 
risk a little more.

Brad