Another Adobe PDF Reader security hole
Once more a security hole in Adobe Reader is being exploited. Gregg Keizer reports at Computerworld:
Until a patch is released next week, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users can protect themselves by enabling Data Execution Prevention (DEP), a security feature designed to stop some kinds of exploits — buffer overflow attacks in particular — by blocking code from executing in memory that’s supposed to contain only data. Instructions on how to enable DEP are available on Microsoft’s support site.
Windows XP users should disable JavaScript in Reader and Acrobat, added Adobe. That wouldn’t block all possible attacks, but will stymie the exploit now in the wild.
Adobe says a patch will be issued next Tuesday.
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