PDF exploits!

[Newby]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016606,00.asp

[Sidoh]

Interesting!

However, I'm (personally) rarely confronted with the need to open a PDF from a source I'm not familiar with or don't trust.  I realize that there are ways to emulate a widely trusted source, but it would seem that there are more useful exploits that would take advantage of this.

I wonder how Adobe will deal with it.

[Nate]

they are PDF reader exploits not PDF exploits.  It would be nice if it said which readers too.

[Newby]

The Adobe Acrobat programs are affected.

And the exploits are found in the PDF files themselves, so I guess technically they could be "PDF exploits" .

[Sidoh]

Plus, it's pretty safe to assume that they mean Adobe applications.  It's like questioning which application is in question in a ".doc exploitation."

[Quik]

The question is, however, if these exploits work on other PDF reading applications. The first one should, at least. As long as the reader takes full advantage of all the features of PDF files.

[Newby]

Not all of them.