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Adobe plugs critical Reader X security holes

By | January 10, 2012, 2:24pm PST

Summary: Adobe fixes six serious vulnerabilities that expose Windows and Mac OS X users to malicious hacker attacks.

Adobe has shipped a critical Reader X update to fix at least six security flaws that expose Windows and Mac OS X users to hacker attacks.

“These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,” Adobe warned in an advisory.

The skinny:

  • These updates resolve a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2011-4370).
  • These updates resolve a heap corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2011-4371).
  • These updates resolve a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2011-4372).
  • These updates resolve a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2011-4373).
  • These updates include fixes for CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2011-4369, previously addressed in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows as referenced in Security Bulletin APSB11-30.

Adobe said this batch of patches also incorporate the Flash Player update released last November.

Windows and Mac users are urged to upgrade to Adobe Reader X (10.1.2) immediately.

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Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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Avoid this update
benpiper 13th Jan
A quick search of Adobe's own forums reveals that a lot of users are no longer able to print PDFs after this upgrade. If you need to upgrade, make sure you thoroughly test printing first.
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is there any way to deploy it to multiple systems in windows domain?
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Avoid this update
benpiper 13th Jan
A quick search of Adobe's own forums reveals that a lot of users are no longer able to print PDFs after this upgrade. If you need to upgrade, make sure you thoroughly test printing first.

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