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Technical Help & Discussion => Broadband, Networking, PC Security, Internet & ISPs => Topic started by: Simon on February 18, 2013, 12:29

Title: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Simon on February 18, 2013, 12:29

Adobe will make an emergency patch available this week to protect its Reader and Acrobat software against a zero-day exploit.

The exploits, known as CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641, were first reported on 12 February by security firm FireEye, and target both Windows and Mac versions of Reader and Acrobat.

Reader version 9 and newer is affected across Mac, Windows and Linux platforms, and versions X and XI are affected on Mac and PCs. For Acrobat, version 9 and newer are affected.

The exploit relies on the user opening a rogue PDF attached to an email. The PDF crashes Acrobat, which when restarted calls back to a remote domain, delivering user keystrokes such as usernames and passwords.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/380023/adobe-to-release-emergency-reader-and-acrobat-patches#ixzz2LFl2li00

Title: Re: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Clive on February 18, 2013, 20:25

Windows, Java, Office, now Adobe.  Are our computers falling apart?   :woot:

Title: Re: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Simon on February 18, 2013, 20:34

It's not us, it's them!   :devil:

Title: Re: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Clive on February 18, 2013, 20:48

Yes, but they are causing our computers to fall apart!   :laugh:

Title: Re: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Simon on February 18, 2013, 21:26

It's all in the grand plan...   :nerves:

Title: Re: Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches
Post by: Clive on February 18, 2013, 22:49

 :crazy: