Re: PDF mailto exploit in the wild

["Nick Boyce" <nick.boyce () gmail com>]

On 10/23/07, Paul Szabo <psz () maths usyd edu au> wrote:

> In case you are interested... messages like the following were spammed
> to my users tonight.

Thanks for the heads-up.
I figured I'd check out Adobe's workaround :
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-18.html

... and there, in the section on registry editing to disable Acrobat's
mailto feature, we find the following :
> #  Navigate to the appropriate registry key:
[...]
> Reader:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8.0\FeatureLockDown\cDefaultLaunchURLPerms
[...]
> # To Disable mailto (recommended)
> Modify tSchemePerms by setting the mailto: value to 3:
> version:1|shell:3|hcp:3|ms-help:3|ms-its:3|
> ms-itss:3|its:3|mk:3|mhtml:3|help:3|disk:3|afp:3|disks:3|telnet:3|ssh:3|acrobat:2|mailto:3|file:2

And now I'm having heart palpitations ... can anyone explain the
function of the "telnet" and "ssh" parts of that little registry entry
?

Cheers,
Nick Boyce
-- 
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