Friday, February 20, 2009

Hackers Zero in on New Adobe Reader, Acrobat Vulnerability

Brian Prince writes on eWeek:

Hackers have once again turned to PDF files to spread their wares, this time assaulting a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat.

Fortunately, the unpatched bug is on the company’s radar, and fixes for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 are slated to be available March 11. Updates for earlier versions will come later, company officials said in an advisory.

The bug is due to an error in the parsing of certain structures in PDF files. If exploited successfully, the bug could allow a hacker to take complete control of a vulnerable system.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2009 12:08:00 PM

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