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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 8th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Adobe Reader Security Vulnerabilities

Adobe has posted information about a known critical security vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Windows, Mac and Unix operating systems. According to Adobe there are reports about a limited attack on the Windows versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 (and most likely earlier). A patch that is fixing the issue [...]

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Categories: Adobe, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player Zero Day Vulnerability

Adobe has issued a security advisory that describes a critical vulnerability in the current versions of Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player. The vulnerability “could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system”. Adobe’s Flash Player seems to be affected completely while the file authplay.dll is the reason [...]

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Categories: Adobe, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

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 [...]

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Categories: Security, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Unofficial Adobe Reader Patch Released

You might have read about a new vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and previous versions that is affecting all platforms and rated critical. The vulnerability can be used to crash an application and allow an attacker to take control of the computer system. Adobe announced plans to release the official patch for all affected products [...]

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Categories: Security, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 7th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Critical Adobe Reader Update

Adobe has released the version 8.1.2 of Adobe Reader which is a critical update that patches a security vulnerability. Adobe recommends that users patch their version of Adobe Reader to the newest as soon as possible to close the security hole. The strange thing about this update is that only 26 of the 27 fixes of this update are listed in the release notes and that the security vulnerability that has been fixed is not listed on that page.

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Categories: Security, Tools, software

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