Bug 920181 – CVE-2013-2550 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism (CanSecWest 2013)

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Bug 920181 - (CVE-2013-2550) CVE-2013-2550 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism (CanSecWest 2013)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2550 acroread: Unspecified vulnerability allows attackers to bypass ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2013-2550

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	920183
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Reported:	2013-03-11 10:09 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2015-07-31 03:00 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-03-14 05:35:58 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-11 10:09:06 EDT

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 05:35:58 EDT

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.

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