[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 05:48:50 PST 2009


It sounds as if a security hole in all versions of Acrobat and Reader
allows a booby-trapped pdf to execute code on a computer... you can
plug the hole by disabling Javascript in the applications (until Adobe
releases a fix).

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/02/attackers_exploiting_unpatched.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter


Art Campbell
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