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Potential vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Started by Retired Tech , Nov 30 2006 04:04 AM

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Retired Tech

Posted 30 November 2006 - 04:04 AM

Retired Staff

Retired Staff
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Adobe is aware of a recently published report of potential vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. These vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Affected software versions Adobe Reader 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 and Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 on the Windows platform when using Internet Explorer. Users of other browsers are not affected.

http://www.adobe.com.../apsa06-02.html