Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates

Adobe has released a set of security updates for their Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat software products that fix a variety of security vulnerabilities that could be used to crash the Adobe application and allow the attacker to take control of the computer system. The security vulnerabilities have been rated as critical and Adobe users are encouraged to update their versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat as soon as possible.

The security updates are provided for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat software products running on both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. The security bulletin that was issued yesterday contains links that point to downloads for all affected programs and operating systems.

The affected programs are:

• Adobe Reader 9.1.1 and earlier versions
• Adobe Acrobat Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended 9.1.1 and earlier versions

Adobe recommends users of Adobe Reader and Acrobat update their product installations to versions 9.1.2, 8.1.6, or 7.1.3 using the instructions above to protect themselves from potential vulnerabilities. The above updates apply to Windows and Macintosh. Security updates for Adobe Reader on the UNIX platform will be available on June 16, 2009; this Bulletin will be updated to reflect their availability on that date.

Security conscious users might want to consider switching from Adobe Reader to a third party application like Foxit Reader, Sumatra PDF or PDF-Xchange Viewer.

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3 Responses to “Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates”

1. Paulus says:

   June 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   Today i looked up the site from the Adobe Reader Lite 9.1.0.29 to get the (latest security) updates but i found there where no updates on that site. On Mar 12 2009, 04:04 PM there was the latest update? Do you know or the moved to a different webadres? And is it still save to use this version?

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