Critical update for Adobe PDF readers

Posted by Vic Laurie
June 24, 2008

Many systems have Adobe software for reading PDF files. Unfortunately, there have been a series of security problems associated with Adobe readers and yet another update, patching a possibly dangerous flaw, has just been issued. Ryan Naraine gives some details:

If you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed on your machine, this update should be treated with the highest possible priority because the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.

The patch is available for all platforms. The affected products are:

Adobe Reader 8.0 through 8.1.2
Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier
Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 8.0 through 8.1.2
Adobe Acrobat Professional, 3D and Standard 7.0.9 and earlier
Adobe Reader 7.1.0 and Acrobat 7.1.0 are not vulnerable to this issue.

The Adobe link is here.

Computer management, Security

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