Adobe Reader and Acrobat - Black Tuesday continues
It ain't just Microsoft ... while MS issued a deluge of patches today, Adobe pushes just one, but theirs addresses no less than 29!! gaping holes in one single update. As we reported earlier, at least one of these 29 vulnerabilities is already being actively exploited. So if you are using Acrobat or Adobe Reader, no matter whether on Unix Windows or Mac, you definitely should take a close look at http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html and start rolling the update. If we were in the habit of rating Adobe patches like Microsoft's, this one would be a "Critical"
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-eddy
Oct 14th 2009
1 decade ago
florian
Oct 14th 2009
1 decade ago
KC
Oct 14th 2009
1 decade ago
On this end, I'm stuck with the Reader package that includes the unwanted AIR/Adobe.com stuff PLUS versioning that suggests that the browser is still unprotected. Add to that the extra hoops that it takes to get IE or Firefox to work with the new version, and I think we can call this one "epic fail". Maybe this is why I didn't see a v9.x directory at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/win/
As it stands now, we won't be rolling this out in our company. I hate having the security hole, but a patch that kills functionality is not accepted in the production systems.
Joel
Oct 14th 2009
1 decade ago
Since that time, I have had to take the whole ball of wax, AIR, Adobe.com, etc. etc. One of the things which I have used to strip out the extras and seems to work well is Revo Uninstaller at http://www.revouninstaller.com/ in advanced mode. Your mileage may vary.
BezantSoft
Oct 19th 2009
1 decade ago
http://cadpanacea.com/node/144
Joel
Oct 21st 2009
1 decade ago