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| Subject: | [Full-disclosure] email attack vector just got wider |
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| Date: | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:41:35 -0400 |
It seems most people I know haven't noticed that the new version of Adobe Acrobat (7) now allows for embedded/attached documents. Since PDF's have generally been considered a safe document format and are typically not blocked by content/attachment scanners, this now opens an email-based attack vector that anti-virus providers [to the best of my knowledge] are not currently addressing. Many thanks to Adobe for creating another issue for us to deal with, and especially for not having the forethought to coordinate with anti-virus vendors to prepare for assuredly future exploitation of the technology. -- ME2 my home: <http://www.santeriasys.net/> my photos: <http://mespinola.blogspot.com/>
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