ID: IRCNE2011121347
Date: 2011-12-17
According to "computerworld", Adobe today said it will release a patch Friday for an older version of the Reader PDF viewer to stymie attacks like those aimed at major defense contractors earlier this month.
Nine days ago, the company confirmed a critical bug in Reader and promised to fix the flaw in Reader and Acrobat 9.x this week.
The exploits uncovered by security researchers were aimed specifically at Reader 9.x using malformed PDF documents attached to bogus emails.
Adobe today again told users -- as it did last week -- that it will not deliver patches for Reader and Acrobat 10 on Windows, or for any version of those applications on Mac OS X and Unix, until Jan. 10, 2012.
The patched versions of Reader and Acrobat 9.x will be available tomorrow from Adobe's website. Friday's fix will be the sixth security update for Reader this year.
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