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Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the oops dept.

QASec.com writes to mention that Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon discovered an unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript on any hosted PDF file. People are reporting different results based on browser and Acrobat versions. Most of the major sites discussed have already fixed the problem, but many smaller sites may still need to be patched.

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  1. i see... by User+956 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Execution Bug

    So that's what happened to Saddam the other day... now it all makes sense.

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  2. What, no Phil Dick reference from ScuttleMonkey? by Cr0w+T.+Trollbot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    After Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? and A Shopping-Scanner Darkly, I was hoping for another Philip K. Dick title reference from ScuttleMonkey here. "'Squash My JavaScript Bugs,' the Acrobat said", perhaps? The Acrobat Whose JavaScript Bugs Were All Exactly Alike? JavaScript Bugs of the Acrobat Moon?

    Crow T. Trollbot