The release of the current version is part of the scheduled quarterly update, so there is nothing abnormal. Major changes in this build touch on EchoSign technology, printing and exporting PDF files. Built-in capabilities to sign PDF files as well as send them to be signed are available in both applications. PDF pr... |
11 January 2012
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Adobe has found a critical vulnerability in its Reader X and Acrobat X applications for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X. For Mac users in particular, the Photoshop makers plan to roll out a security patch early next year.Talking about the vulnerability in a dedicated advisory on their web site, Adobe reve... |
7 December 2011
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Adobe has released new versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat in order to address two vulnerabilities, one of which has been actively exploited in the wild since two weeks ago.Identified as CVE-2011-0611, the flaw affects the authplay.dll Flash Player component bundled with Adobe Reader and Acrobat.The vulnerability wa... |
21 April 2011
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Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat to address a zero-day vulnerability in the bundled Flash Player component.The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2011-0609 and was confirmed last Monday after attacks were detected exploiting it in the wild.The flaw affects Adobe Flash Player and can be... |
22 March 2011
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Adobe has released its scheduled quarterly security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, addressing a large number of critical vulnerabilities.In total, the updates provide fixes for 29 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0), 9.4.1 and 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac. Updates for the UNIX platform are expecte... |
9 February 2011
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Adobe has released new versions of its Reader and Acrobat products, addressing a flurry of critical vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution. One of the flaws has been actively exploited in the wild since the beginning of the month.Out of the seventeen vulnerabilities mentioned in the security bull... |
30 June 2010
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Adobe has broken the quarterly update cycle for Reader and Acrobat in order to patch a cross-domain vulnerability fixed earlier this month in Flash Player. The security update also addresses a critical memory corruption flaw reported by researchers at Microsoft.Users are advised to update their Adobe Reader and Acrob... |
17 February 2010
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A new critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting all versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat is currently being exploited to infect the computers of unsuspecting users. After reports of ongoing attacks have surfaced, Adobe confirmed the flaw and offered temporary mitigation solutions.This year has been ve... |
16 December 2009
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Adobe has released its second quarterly security update, which addresses 29 vulnerabilities in its Reader and Acrobat products. Exploitation of the majority of these flaws could result in arbitrary code execution and one of them is already being actively targeted in Web attacks since last week.On October 8, Adobe ann... |
14 October 2009
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Adobe has released a scheduled update for its Reader and Acrobat products in order to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability, which is actively being targeted in attacks. The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by embedding malformed Flash streams into PDF documents. Almost a week ago, security experts... |
1 August 2009
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Adobe has officially started its quarterly update cycle for its Reader and Acrobat products yesterday, by addressing thirteen flaws. This is part of the company's code-hardening efforts, which were announced a few weeks ago. The Adobe Reader and Acrobat are currently deployed in millions of computers around the... |
10 June 2009
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In light of the avalanche of critical 0-day vulnerabilities identified in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat products for the past year, Adobe wants to strengthen its security by reviewing critical areas of the older code base. A quarterly security update cycle will also be introduced starting this summer. "Since February... |
21 May 2009
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Adobe has released security updates for all versions of its Reader and Acrobat products, running on all supported operating systems, an exception being the 7.1.1 version on Mac OS X, which remains vulnerable. The patches address two serious remote code execution bugs, which have been known since the end of April. On... |
14 May 2009
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A hacker calling himself Arr1val has published proof-of-concept exploit codes for two 0-day vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The company has already confirmed one of them and strongly suggests disabling JavaScript in the products until a patch will be made available. The flaws are classified by Se... |
29 April 2009
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The yet-unpatched critical vulnerability affecting up-to-date versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat has just become more dangerous. A security consultant has demonstrated how to exploit the bug without needing to actually open a malformed PDF file. It's been a little over two weeks since members of the cyber-cri... |
6 March 2009
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Experts from vulnerability research firm Secunia warn that disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat products does not efficiently protect against the recently-disclosed 0-day remote code execution vulnerability affecting them. Until Adobe will address the problem, another security researcher has created an un... |
25 February 2009
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The cybercrime-fighting outfit Shadowserver has released an advisory warning about a critical flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat products that is being actively exploited in the wild. The attack vector consists of maliciously-crafted PDF files and successful exploitation gives attackers control over the system. Shadow... |
20 February 2009
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Bojan Zdrnja from the Internet Storm Center (ISC) warns that he has encountered malicious PDF files, which exploit the recently announced and patched JavaScript-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and older. The attack is based on proof of concept code that was released on exploit tr... |
8 November 2008
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Adobe has announced the existence of no less than five local and remote code execution vulnerabilities in the 8.1.2 and earlier versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Security patches have been released for all of them along with an advisory, which also includes a privilege escalation and a denial of service vulnerabi... |
5 November 2008
08:08 GMT |
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