Via betanews.com -
Adobe spokesperson John Cristofano confirmed to BetaNews this afternoon that the subject of yesterday's Microsoft security bulletin was indeed the same vulnerability affecting Adobe PDF files in Windows XP. This revelation, coupled with the technical details of the problem described by Microsoft's own security team late yesterday, means that the flaw previously attributed to Adobe software is actually being caused by Microsoft Windows XP in tandem with Internet Explorer 7.
Late Friday, Microsoft Director of Security Response Mark Miller confirmed to BetaNews that the vulnerability identified in the company's latest security bulletin is identical to the one discovered by security researcher Petko D. Petkov, and originally attributed to Adobe PDF.
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I talked to pdp about this and he said the problem goes deeper than just this flaw. This whole issue reminds me of the Firefox / Quicktime issue of Sept. They shift the blame back and forth to hide the fact that they didn't do their own checking.
In the end, it comes down to big companies not doing the validation that needs to be done...period.
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