[Secure-testing-commits] r11832 - in data: . CVE

Raphael Geissert atomo64+debian at gmail.com
Wed May 13 20:54:56 UTC 2009


Hi,

Nico Golde wrote:

> Hi,
> * Raphael Geissert <atomo64-guest at alioth.debian.org> [2009-05-07 17:34]:
>> Author: atomo64-guest
>> Date: 2009-05-07 15:06:47 +0000 (Thu, 07 May 2009)
>> New Revision: 11832
>> 
>> Modified:
>>    data/CVE/list
>>    data/embedded-code-copies
>> Log:
>> swfpdf embeds xpdf -- round one
> 
> did you verify the vulnerabilities affect swftools in the
> way they make use of the code or is this just an add because
> of the embedded copy?

I checked by looking for the vulnerable code, but since swftools use the
embedded copy for its pdf2swf converter, I expect it to be vulnerable to
most of the vectors. Take a look at scribd.com to see what it does to pdfs.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net





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