Virus alert: Zero-day flaw found in Adobe Acrobat

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Fri, 20/02/2009 - 12:23  4253  1 comment

Critical security announcements and previously undiscovered "zero-day" vulnerabilities are routine in the current computing environment, but the announcement of a flaw in Adobe's Acrobat Reader program is both surprising, and unwelcome.

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Patch update published

John Stokdyk | Wed, 25/02/2009 - 18:22 | Permalink

An updated Adobe security bulletin provided a bit more detail about the vulnerability, which affected Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier versions.

Adobe has also developed a patched version of Flash Player 9, Flash Player 9.0.159.0.

John Stokdyk
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