RE: [PDF] Acrobat 5.1 Security problem

[Rich Sprague]

1,000 x free still = free.   The security flaw only appears to relate to Reader 5.1 and it's use with the XML forms data format (XFDF).   Here's more information:   http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/adobexfdf.txt   Since Adobe already has a free fix (Reader 6) for its users and for the company, I wouldn't expect them to be too concerned about the problem.   Rich From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Balogh Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF] Acrobat 5.1 Security problem Short of going to 6.0, what else can be done?  I am in an Enterprise environment, with over 1k users.  Also, does this affect user of Adobe Acrobat 5.0? NGSSoftware announced it has found a critical security flaw within Adobe Reader 5.1 that could leave users open to having their computers taken over by hackers. The security firm said the flaw is a data format buffer overflow that could be used by hackers to compromise end-user systems that view specially crafted PDFs. The buffer overflow affects the XML forms data format (XFDF), which is a format for representing forms data and annotations in a PDF document.