It has been a bad year for Adobe’s security team, as Adobe products where hit with many critical security vulnerabilities in that time. The latest was just announced yesterday in a security advisory over at Adobe. The critical vulnerability affects both Adobe Flash Player versions 10.1.85.3 and earlier on all supported operating systems (that’s Windows, [...]

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What is it with Adobe Reader and vulnerabilities? It feels like new security vulnerabilities are found in the software at an accelerated pace this year. Adobe yesterday released a security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, to announce to the world that critical security vulnerabilities have been found – once again – in Adobe Reader [...]

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Adobe today has released a new version of their pdf readers Adobe Reader and Acrobat raising the versions of said products to 9.3.3 respectively 9.3.3. Affected by the vulnerabilities are Adobe Reader 9.3.2 and earlier for Windows, Macintosh and Unix as well as Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. The security bulletin [...]

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Two new vulnerabilities affecting the Adobe products Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash were reported by Secunia earlier this day. They have in common that they have been both rated as extremely critical, the highest available severity rating for vulnerabilities posted at Secunia. Highly critical is a rating for “remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to [...]

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Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash seem to be two of the most targeted software programs by malicious software and hackers besides the Microsoft Windows operating system and Internet Explorer. It is rare that a month passes by without yet another update that fixes a security vulnerability in Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Today a critical vulnerability [...]

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

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