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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Arcoread7 secutiry vulnerability
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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.h=
tml
> > [3] http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/02bc9b7c-e019-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54.h=
tml
>=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?

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.

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Security Team

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