Adobe Releases Security Bulletin for Critical Vulnerability
Adobe has released security bulletin APSB09-15 to alert users of acritical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Adobe indicates thatit has received reports of active exploitation of this vulnerability.
Release of an update for this vulnerability is scheduled for Tuesday,October 13.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to take the followingactions to help mitigate the risks:
Review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15.
Disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Acrobat JavaScript can be disabled in the General preferences dialog Edit, Preferences, JavaScript, and un-check “Enable Acrobat JavaScript”.
http//www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
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I am not sure whether chosing the same day as Microsoft Patch Tuesday is a good idea or not or will it confuse people more with updates from different sourcces all coming on the same day
Yesterday, updates to Adobe Reader and Acrobat (9.2) were released, which may cause a small number of AIR applications that load PDF content to become unresponsive. This only affects AIR apps on Windows operating systems. To address this issue, we have released an update to Adobe AIR (1.5.2.8900) that is now available on the Adobe AIR Download Center.
For additional information on this issue, please see the following Adobe Reader TechNote: AIR application not displaying PDF while using Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9.2 on Windows.