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 ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-2550
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 920183
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-11 14:09 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-14 09:35:58 UTC
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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.
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