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Information Technology News "Apple Bug" number six hits Windows, Linux too
Information Technology News "Apple Bug" number six hits Windows, Linux too | "Apple Bug" number six hits Windows, Linux too |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Sunday, 07 January 2007 | |
  
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It appears that some common PDF-reading applications - Mac OS X's Preview 3.0.8 (ie, the current version), Adobe Reader 7.0 and earlier (including Acrobat Reader), and xpdf 3.0.1 patch 2 (current) and its derivatives - fail to check the validity of invalid entries, and this can result in a variety of error conditions. Adobe Reader 8.0 "is not affected apparently." "Actually, exploitation of this issue for arbitrary code execution is possible," LMH claims, depending on the application and the condition caused. The suggested workaround is to avoid untrusted PDF files and to remove any browser add-ons that automatically open PDF files. "A temporal solution might be using Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0.0 but it may be affected by other issues as well." Acrobat Reader 8 is not very popular among Mac OS X users as it is slow to load compared with Preview.{moscomment} |
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