Re: Arcoread7 secutiry vulnerability

From: Simon L. Nielsen (simon_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/28/05

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    Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:43:26 +0200
To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>

    On 2005.08.28 15:25:25 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
    > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:13:18 +0200 Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
    >
    > > You are mixing up two different vulnerabilities [1]. The vulnerability
    > > fixed by the 7.0.1 upgrade was "acroread -- plug-in buffer overflow
    > > vulnerability" [2]. The vulnerability portaudit is warning you about
    > > is "acroread -- XML External Entity vulnerability" [3]. As far as I
    > > know Adobe has not released any fix for the Linux version of Adobe
    > > Reader for [3].
    >
    > > [1] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/pkg-acroread7.html
    > > [2] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f74dc01b-0e83-11da-bc08-0001020eed82.html
    > > [3] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/02bc9b7c-e019-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54.html
    >
    > Well, I think that Linux version is not suffered from CAN-2005-1306:
    > http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331710.html
    >
    > Platforms affected are Windows and Mac OS. Am I missing something?

    Adobe does not list the Linux version as affected, but the original
    reporter of the problem does list the Linux version as affected, at
    http://shh.thathost.com/secadv/adobexxe/ . In these cases we prefer
    err on the side of caution and will rather list a package as affected,
    even if it's not, rather than not listing a package that turn out to
    be affected.

    I have just written a mail to the original reporter of the problem to
    try to clarify the issue. 

    -- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Security Team

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