Hacker Finds Serious Flaw in Adobe PDF
Sep 22nd, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Security
The security researcher said he would not release code that shows how a PDF attack works until Adobe provided a patch for the problem.[PC World] The hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Inc.’s PDF file format.
Read Petko Petkov’s - blog posting
Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one.
The issue is quite critical given the fact that PDF documents are in the core of today’s modern business. This and the fact that it may take a while for Adobe to fix their closed source product, are the reasons why I am not going to publish any POCs. You have to take my word for it. The POCs will be released when an update is available.