Security Alert: Adobe patches Acrobat and Reader vulnerability

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Wed, 17/01/2007 - 13:26  3405  1 comment

Adobe Systems last week published a security bulletin alerting users to a potential vulnerability in the Adobe Reader plug-in that allows people to view PDF files in their web browsers - and the availability of software patches to plug the hole.

Described as a "cross-site scripting" vulnerability in versions 7.0.8 and earlier of Adobe Reader and Acrobat could let hackers inject malicious JavaScript into Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera browsers that would give them remote contro

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Thanks to "JC" for alerting us

John Stokdyk | Wed, 17/01/2007 - 15:28 | Permalink

The cross-scripting was initially brought to our attention by "JC" in a posting on a recent PDF Diary item in our PDF and Acrobat Zone.

We'd like to thank JC and all the other AccountingWEB members who help keep us informed of developments like this.

John Stokdyk
Technology editor
AccountingWEB.co.uk

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