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safan80
02-20-2009, 06:17 PM
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/20/1525233


Security companies warn of a new flaw in version 9 of Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could compromise PCs merely by the opening of a malicious PDF. Although attacks are not yet widespread, hackers are exploiting the flaw in the wild, gaining control of computers via buffer overflow conditions triggered by the opening of specially crafted PDFs." Adobe is calling the flaw "critical" and says a patch for Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 will be released by March 11.

Particle
02-20-2009, 06:22 PM
MARCH for a critical and now publicly disclosed buffer overflow?

Shaggy
02-20-2009, 06:38 PM
Adobe software is almost as bad as apples

Use Foxit.

alfaunits
02-20-2009, 10:35 PM
MARCH for a critical and now publicly disclosed buffer overflow?
My thought's exactly this when I read the article, WTF???