Re: Arcoread7 secutiry vulnerability
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On 2005.08.28 13:43:26 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 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].
> >=20
> > > [1] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/pkg-acroread7.html
> > > [2] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f74dc01b-0e83-11da-bc08-0001020eed82=
=2Ehtml
> > > [3] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/02bc9b7c-e019-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54=
=2Ehtml
> >=20
> > Well, I think that Linux version is not suffered from CAN-2005-1306:
> > http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331710.html
> >=20
> > Platforms affected are Windows and Mac OS. Am I missing something?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> I have just written a mail to the original reporter of the problem to
> try to clarify the issue.
I just got a mail back from Sverre H. Huseby and he says that the
Linux version indeed was affected, but 7.0.1 seems to be fixed, so I
marked it as fixed in VuXML.
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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Security Team
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