Re: Adobe acrobat / Adobe Reader 6 can read local files

[Nick Leoncavallo <nleoncavallo@xxxxxxxxx>]

In-Reply-To: <0I5H001195EBYO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This can be defeated by disallowing multimedia operations in the "Trust 
Manager" settings.  

I'm not sure I want to the other setting labeled "Allow documents to open other 
files and launch other applications" either, but it doesn't have an affect on 
Jelmer's example.

- Nick 

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>Adobe acrobat / Adobe Reader 6 can read local files
>
>Description
>
>Acrobat/ Acrobat reader is software for viewing and printing Adobe Portable
>Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe PDF files can be viewed on most major
>operating systems.
>
>Version 6 of this program has an issue with the way it handles embedding
>macromedia flash files directly into a pdf. This allows a malicious website
>operator to steal local files from a user's hard drive including cookie
>files
>
>Technical Details:
>
>Version 6 of the pdf format introduced a new way to embed movies directly
>into the pdf file. In previous versions one could only link to media in
>external files
>
>Adobe reader extracts this swf file from the pdf and saves it under a random
>name to your temp dir, on windows XP and 2000 this dir is usually located at
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp
>
>It then appears to "link" directly to this saved file in effect making your
>local hard disk the codebase for this swf file and allowing it read access
>to all of the files on your hard drive
>
>Systems affected:
>
>Adobe reader 6
>Adobe acrobat 6
>
>Demonstration:
>
>Create a text file called c:\jelmer.txt then proceed to click on 
>
>http://62.131.86.111/security/acrobat/demo.pdf
>
>Risk: medium
>
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>