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Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries
From: "Stefan Kanthak" <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:36:48 +0200
"Brad Hards" <bradh () frogmouth net> wrote:
On Sunday 19 June 2011 11:37:33 Stefan Kanthak wrote:soft Xpansion <www.soft-xpansion.com> distributes their (freeware) products "Perfect PDF 7 Master" and "Perfect PDF 7 Reader" (the current files are dated 2011-05-10) with OUTDATED and VULNERABLE Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries VCRedist_x86.exe/VCRedist_x64.exe version 9.0.30729.17 of 2008-08-08. These libraries have been updated since then at least twice due to vulnerabilities, see <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-035.mspx> and <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-025.mspx>Did you check if these vulnerabilities be exploited via this product?
No. I would have mentioned them explicitly then.
I'm not suggesting that its OK to distribute outdated libs, just to understand the risk a little more.
1. Software that is distributed with such outdated libraries is VERY likely compiled/produced in an outdated development environment TOO, so there may be more errors/vulnerabilities lurking. 2. <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-025.mspx> | In the case where a system has no MFC applications currently installed | but does have the vulnerable Visual Studio or Visual C++ runtimes | installed, Microsoft recommends that users install this update as a | defense-in-depth measure, in case of an attack vector being introduced | or becoming known at a later time. For the above products Microsofts advice is like a self-fullfilling prophecy:-( 3. Even if the current MSVC++ runtime is installed later (via Windows Update, for example), the vulnerable MSVC++ runtime(s) remain installed (side-by-side). You have to (and should!) remove them manually to get rid of them completely! Stefan
Current thread:
- Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries Stefan Kanthak (Jun 20)
- Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries Brad Hards (Jun 25)
- Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries Stefan Kanthak (Jun 23)
- Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries Jeffrey Walton (Jun 29)
- Re: Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries Brad Hards (Jun 25)