[34090] in bugtraq
With regards to the Adobe Acrobat Reader advisory (#NISR03022004)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NGSSoftware Insight Security Resea)
Wed Mar 10 15:34:08 2004
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From: "NGSSoftware Insight Security Research" <nisr@nextgenss.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:11:03 -0000
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Hello all,
I've been inundated with e-mails asking whether operating systems other than
Windows are affected by XFDF overflow. Whilst I did not state that Windows
is the only OS affected, and I should have done, I thought it was clear,
incorrectly, that Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows was indeed the only one
and not Mac, *nix, etc.
From the original advisory:
When the xfdf file is parsed an unsafe call to sprintf is made in
preparation for outputting a debug message using OutputDebugString.
OutputDebugString is a Win32 API function, exported by kernel32.dll.
Conseqently, the vulnerable code path will exist only in the Windows version
of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I hope this clears up any confusion.
Cheers,
David Litchfield
NGSSoftware/NGSConsulting
http://www.nextgenss.com/
+44(0)208 401 0070
