"Brad Hards" <bradh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 current files are dated 2011-05-10) with OUTDATED and VULNERABLE 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 I'm not suggesting that its OK to distribute outdated libs, just to 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 Software that is distributed with such outdated libraries is VERY likely compiled/produced in an outdated development environment TOO, so there may be more errors/vulnerabilities lurking. 2.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
