Adobe PDF at Risk From Zero-Day Vulnerability

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 16, 2009

“Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) has not yet released a full advisory
detailing the security issue, but has issued a brief statement on
its security blog.

“”Adobe received reports of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and
Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions being exploited in the wild
(CVE-2009-4324),” Adobe’s David Lenoe wrote on the Adobe Product
Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog. “We are currently
investigating this issue and assessing the risk to our
customers.”

“According to security researchers at the Shadowserver
Foundation, the new Adobe PDF vulnerability has been circulating
the Internet and resulting in exploits since Dec. 11.”


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