[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

[Art Campbell]

Just as a PostScript to this (sorry...)

When one of my 9.0 systems automatically downloaded the 9.1 patch last
week, it totally trashed the installation and I had to uninstall,
reinstall, and re-patch.

Two other systems pulled it in and it worked fine.

Art

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Art Campbell warned us:
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>> 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).
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> Adobe issued the fix for this yesterday (one week behind their originally planned date). This security issue affected Acrobat versions 8.0 and 7.0 as well as 9.0, and updates have been released for all three versions on both Windows and Mac platofrms. (UNIX users will have to wait a bit longer for a fix.) Full details and links to download pages are at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html
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> -Fred Ridder
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