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Adobe to ship critical Reader, Acrobat patches

By | September 11, 2011, 5:38am PDT

Summary: Adobe plans to release “critical” patches to cover code execution vulnerabilities in its flagship Reader X and Acrobat X software (Windows and Mac).

Just a quick heads-up that Adobe will join Microsoft in releasing major security updates during Patch Tuesday next week (September 13, 2011).

Adobe plans to release “critical” patches to cover code execution vulnerabilities in its flagship Reader X software (Windows and Mac OS X).

The company is also planning to ship updates for Adobe Acrobat X (10.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Mac to resolve critical security issues.

Affected software:

  • Adobe Reader X (10.1) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
  • Adobe Reader 9.4.5 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
  • Adobe Reader 8.3 and earlier 8.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
  • Adobe Acrobat X (10.1) and earlier 10.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
  • Adobe Acrobat 9.4.5 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh
  • Adobe Acrobat 8.3 and earlier 8.x versions for Windows and Macintosh

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Never ending huge updates for Acrobat security nightmare
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It can end ..
thx-1138_@... Updated - 11th Sep
@shellcodes_coder .. just try Foxit Reader :

http://filehippo.com/download_foxit/comments/9523/

(... or any other free, pdf viewer that floats your boat)
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RE: Adobe to ship critical Reader, Acrobat patches
Rabid Howler Monkey 11th Sep
From the article:
"Adobe plans to release ?critical? patches to cover code execution vulnerabilities in its flagship Reader X software (Windows and Mac OS X).

This is Adobe's sandboxed PDF Reader. Does this mean a potential sandbox escape was found?
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Why still #1? Good lobying
GuardianBob 12th Sep
Why is ADOBE still the #1 reader?
Surely not because of its dependability.
Surely not because of their almost unexistent updates.
Surely not because of the strong uncrackable EXE.
Surely not because it's the greatest one online.

So they must have top-of-the-class lobbyists!! How else could you stay #1 when you're really non-numerical! (This means we can't even put a rank on their "thing" they call a reader!!!)
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RE: Adobe to ship critical Reader, Acrobat patches
bigjon-x64 13th Sep
@GuardianBob

Because they developed the standard. All Kleenex are tissues, but not all tissues are Kleenex. Their name is synonomous with PDF, so for most people when they need to read a PDF - they associate PDF with Adobe and then install the reader.
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Rabid Howler Monkey 13th Sep
@jon.bjerke@... Windows OEMs also pre-install Adobe Reader on PCs. And since Microsoft does not have a default PDF reader like Mac OS X and most Linux distros, its what most people use.
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