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Adobe patches zero-day Reader flaw
News Adobe on Tuesday issued a security update to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a computer, and for which exploits had been reportedly found in the wild for nearly...
[March 11, 2009, 7:47]
Adobe promises fixes for Reader and Acrobat
News The software maker has also confirmed the existence of another vulnerability, in Adobe Reader for Unix, Lenoe said. In March, Adobe patched a zero-day flaw in Reader that had led to exploits in the wild, while in February it had to issue a patch...
[May 5, 2009, 17:31]
Adobe PDF zero-day gets homebrew patch
News The zero-day vulnerability, which affects all versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, is being actively exploited in the wild, the Shadowserver Foundation reported last week. Security researchers have published a piece of code designed to provide a...
[February 24, 2009, 12:20]
Adobe zero-day flaw won't be fixed until March
News A zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat will not have a fix until March, Adobe has warned. Affected products include Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9, as well as earlier versions.
[February 20, 2009, 16:00]
Critical Adobe Reader hole discovered
News The vulnerability affects version 8.1.2 of Reader, Core Security said in a statement issued on Tuesday to coincide with Adobe's planned release of a security update to fix the vulnerability. Damian Frizza, a CoreLabs researcher, discovered the...
[November 4, 2008, 15:59]
Adobe to plug critical Flash hole next week
News The vulnerability exists in current versions of Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x for those same platforms, Adobe said in an advisory.
[July 24, 2009, 9:15]
Adobe investigates zero-day Flash attacks
News In a post on its website, Adobe said it "is aware of reports of a potential vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10. On Wednesday, researchers at Symantec announced that they have uncovered attacks where...
[July 23, 2009, 17:05]
Adobe patches critical Flash hole
News The vulnerability affected a file that shipped with Flash Player 9.x and 10.x for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and with Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and Unix. In an earlier advisory about the problem, Adobe said: "There...
[July 31, 2009, 8:28]
Acrobat flaw opens door to attack
News The Adobe vulnerability could spark a rise XSS attacks, Symantec said. Such attacks in the past relied on flaws in websites, but with the Adobe Reader bug there is now a widely used client-side application that allows cross-site-scripting attacks...
[January 4, 2007, 7:29]
Microsoft rolls out record Patch Tuesday fixes
News Adobe also issued security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh on Tuesday in its first quarterly security update for its popular software for creating and reading PDF files.
[June 10, 2009, 8:37]
PDF reader flaw fixed
News The most serious of the two Adobe flaws is a "buffer overflow" vulnerability that affects Adobe Acrobat 6.0.4 and earlier for both Windows and Mac OS, Adobe said. Adobe Systems joined Microsoft on "Patch Tuesday" and delivered fixes for two...
[July 13, 2006, 9:45]
Adobe adopts 'Patch Tuesday' security updates
News The March patch fixed a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a computer and for which exploits had been reportedly found in the wild for nearly two months.
[May 21, 2009, 10:18]
Adobe Reader JavaScript security flaw emerges
News Security experts are recommending that people disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader following reports of a vulnerability in the popular portable document format reader on Tuesday. Just last month, Adobe issued a fix for an Acrobat Reader hole that...
[April 29, 2009, 8:53]
Adobe plugs Flash-player hole
News While Adobe was releasing news about the Flash vulnerability, more information was surfacing about the hole in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that was announced on 20 February. The vulnerability is critical for one for Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36...
[February 26, 2009, 10:29]
Adobe warns of Acrobat flaw
News The vulnerability is a buffer overflow problem within a core application plug-in that is part of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the company said. A security flaw in Adobe Systems' popular Acrobat and Reader applications could be used to shut down...
[August 18, 2005, 9:30]
New virus travels in PDF files
News The virus spreads only by way of Adobe's Acrobat software -- the program used to create PDF documents -- not through Acrobat Reader, the free program that is used to view the files. There is no way for this to affect Acrobat Reader," said Adobe's...
[August 8, 2001, 9:30]
Microsoft readies 10 security updates
News In addition, Adobe said it will provide security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh on Tuesday in its first quarterly security update for its popular software for creating and reading PDF files.
[June 5, 2009, 9:36]
Microsoft warns of rise in scareware, PDF exploits
News Adobe released a security update in March to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 for which exploits had been reportedly found in the wild for nearly two months. Meanwhile, the total number of unique vulnerability...
[April 8, 2009, 15:54]
Businesses overlooking biggest security risks
News The first is targeted email attacks, or spear phishing, that exploit client-side vulnerabilities in programs such as Adobe's PDF Reader and Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Office. These applications are described as "the primary initial...
[September 15, 2009, 11:08]
Adobe fixes critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat
News The patches are needed because PDFs and Acrobat documents have become the conduit for rogue software that turns a user's PC into part of a botnet, warned Matt Watchinski, director of vulnerability research at security vendor Sourcefire, who...
[June 10, 2009, 17:45]
