Secunia

pdp has discovered a security issue in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The problem is that it is possible to launch "file://" URLs from within PDF files. This can be exploited to e.g. read arbitrary files on the system and send them to the attacker.

Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into locally opening a PDF file.

The security issue is confirmed in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional versions 8.0.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Do not open untrusted PDF files.

Provided and/or discovered by
pdp

Original Advisory
http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/pdf-strikes-back/

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