[NUGA] Adobe Acrobat Vulnerabilities

Some of you may already be aware of this, but thought I'd post it for
those who weren't.

Mike

January 13, Computerworld - (International) Adobe patches PDF zero-day,
other critical bugs. Adobe late January 12 patched eight security
vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its popular PDF viewing and
editing programs. Security experts urged consumers and corporate IT
administrators to use the time provided by a light month of Microsoft
patching to update Adobe Reader and Acrobat, calling the Adobe fixes more
important for one of the first times ever. The January 12 Adobe update,
the companys third since it announced it would patch Reader and Acrobat
quarterly, fixed one flaw that hackers had already exploited. The bug,
which was publicly disclosed in mid- December but has been used by
attackers since November, had gone unpatched until January 12. In December
2009, Adobe said it would not patch the bug until January 12 because an
emergency fix would upset the schedule of quarterly security updates. In
the interim, hackers continued to launch limited attacks that targeted
specific individuals and companies, and conducted large-scale campaigns
that touched thousands of users. Adobe tagged six of the eight
vulnerabilities with the phrases could allow arbitrary code execution or
could lead to code execution, security-speak for bugs that could be used
to hijack a system. Source:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9144238/Adobe_patches_PDF_zero_day_other_critical_
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Received on Thu Jan 14 10:09:39 2010