Adobe Reader Security Update [Archive]

Jeff Campbell

05-14-2009, 04:00 PM

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html' target='_blank'>http://www.adobe.com/support/securi.../apsb09-06.html</a> </div>"A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier versions. This vulnerability (CVE-2009-1492) would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. A second vulnerability has also been reported that appears to affect Adobe Reader for UNIX only (CVE-2009-1493)."<img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1242262606.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" />Several versions of the software are affected but Adobe is offering <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-06.html" target="_blank">updates</a> to fix new and old. If you have Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1,  or earlier standard or pro versions, head on over to Adobe and download the fix. They have downloads to fix Windows, OS X and Unix systems all on the same page so you folks that have multiple systems can get the right fix from one page, or at least get directed to the right page.

doogald

05-14-2009, 05:02 PM

Honestly, I put up with Flash because it appears that I have no choice, but otherwise, because there seem to be a ton of Adobe security issues, at this point I would not touch Adobe products with a ten foot pole! No Adobe Air apps for me. If I am ever in Windows, I just use FoxIt (I know that they also had a security vulnerability recently, but they seemed to patch it pretty quickly.) Preview.app seems to work very well on OS X for displaying PDFs, and even for creating PDFs from previewed print jobs.