full-disclosure - Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:45:06 +1000
From: silky <michaelslists@...il.com>
To: Geo. <geoincidents@....net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows

On 9/22/07, Geo. <geoincidents@....net> wrote:
> > pa> http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-pdf-pwns-windows
> > Is this the way responsible disclosure works these days ?
> > "Adobe?s representatives can contact me from the usual place."
> >
> > Wow, now that's coordinated release. Knowing the bugs that you found
> > previously it should take 10 minutes to rediscover this one. Which
> > makes this even worse.
>
> I just saw his video showing the exploit fireing up calculator, it looks
> like the same stuff (feature/exploit call it what you want) that's been
> around for years. See www.nthelp.com/test.pdf (warning, it won't damage
> anything but it may scare you)

ps, if anyone cares, this exploit does not work on foxit pdf reader v1.3.

foxit rocks.

so lets not call it a 'pdf' vuln, but a 'adobe acrobat' vuln.

> Geo.
>
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