Perfect PDF products distributed with vulnerable MSVC++ libraries

["Stefan Kanthak" <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de>]

Hi @ll, 

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current files are dated 2011-05-10) with OUTDATED and VULNERABLE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>


Timeline:

2011-05-13    vendor informed via mail

              (no reply)

2011-06-19    vulnerability report published


Stefan Kanthak