Adobe Patches Bugs in Reader, Acrobat
Adobe Patches Bugs in Reader, Acrobat
Posted 11/16/2010 at 7:05pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Adobe on Tuesday issued a security advisory, requesting users running Reader and Acrobat 9.4 or earlier to update to 9.4.1, which addresses a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-3654) acknowledged by the company in late October.
The said vulnerability, which can be used by an attacker to take control of the affected system, also affects Flash Player 10.1.85.3 (and earlier), but the hole in Flash has already been plugged with the release of version 10.1.102.64 earlier this month. Besides CVE-2010-3654, the updates also addressees a “potential issue” (CVE-2010-4091) in certain versions of Reader.
“Note that these updates represent an out-of-cycle release. The next quarterly security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat are scheduled for February 8, 2011,” said Adobe in the advisory.
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legend-nyc
November 17, 2010 at 7:34am
If you are still running Adobe Acrobat 6, too bad for you.
No surpise that the first two comments are spam.
Walnut
November 16, 2010 at 9:17pm
Here's a tip for Adobe: scrap Acrobat/Reader and start over. It's the shittiest software out there. I want a PDF reader, not whatever the hell your product is. If it doesn't hang my browser it just displays a blank screen. When it does on --rare occasions-- work, it takes several minutes to open even small PDFs. Additionally, it seems like there are major security holes that "allow an attacker to take control" of my computer on a near-monthly basis. I'm just glad there are alternatives so I never have to use this shit again.
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