Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader

An anonymous reader writes "Core Security Technologies issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect millions using Adobe's Reader PDF file viewing software. Engineers from CoreLabs determined that Adobe Reader could be exploited to gain access to vulnerable systems via the use of a specially crafted PDF file with malicious JavaScript content. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that users open a maliciously crafted PDF file, thereby allowing attackers to gain access to vulnerable systems and assume the privileges of a user running Acrobat Reader."

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Re:For the uninformed:

[Thaelon]

Foxit FTL.

Sumatra PDF Viewer FTW.

Foxit is about as bloated and irritating as Acrobat Reader was in version 5.0 (which was much better, but still terrible).

Sumatra is to Foxit as Foxit is to Adobe Acrobat Reader.

I realize being a .info site makes it very suspicious, but if you don't trust me or it, Google it yourself