full-disclosure - Re: PDF mailto exploit in the wild

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710230933580.5639@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gregory Boyce <gboyce@...belly.com>
To: Nick Boyce <nick.boyce@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: PDF mailto exploit in the wild

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Nick Boyce wrote:

>> # To Disable mailto (recommended)
>> Modify tSchemePerms by setting the mailto: value to 3:
>> version:1|shell:3|hcp:3|ms-help:3|ms-its:3|
>> ms-itss:3|its:3|mk:3|mhtml:3|help:3|disk:3|afp:3|disks:3|telnet:3|ssh:3|acrobat:2|mailto:3|file:2
>
> And now I'm having heart palpitations ... can anyone explain the
> function of the "telnet" and "ssh" parts of that little registry entry
> ?

So that you can have ssh:// or telnet:// links within a document.

--
Another Boyce

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