Bug 920181 (CVE-2013-2550)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2550 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism (CanSecWest 2013)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mkasik
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-11 14:09:06 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2550 to the following vulnerability:

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader 11.0.02 allows attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by George Hotz during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2550
[2] http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2Own-2013/ba-p/5981157
[3] http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/309771882612281344

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-14 09:35:58 UTC

Adobe has indicated that this issue does not affect the version of Adobe Reader shipped with Linux.

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of acroread as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.