Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Updates For Adobe Reader & Acrobat Available

Adobe has released updated versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Versions 9.1.1 and older contain vulnerabilities that would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe has categorized the update as critical and recommends that users of Adobe Reader/Acrobat update their versions to 9.1.2, 8.1.6 or 7.1.3. At the moment, updated versions are available for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Security updates for Adobe Reader on the UNIX platform are expected to be available on June 16, 2009.

More information about vulnerabilities and update instructions can be found from the correspondent security bulletin.

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