Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @12:54PM from the p-d-q dept.

CWmike writes "Sourcefire security researcher Lurene Grenier has published a home-brewed patch for the critical Adobe Reader vulnerability that hackers are exploiting in the wild using malicious PDF files, beating Adobe Systems Inc. to the punch by more than two weeks. Grenier posted the patch on Sunday with the caveats that it applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees. Also, PhishLabs has created a batch file that resets a Windows registry key to de-fang the hack by disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader 9.0, giving administrators a way to automate the process."

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But does it run on linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-23 13:03 · Score: -1, Redundant

> applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees.
Oh. Apparently not.
Please define "Average User" by bogaboga · 2009-02-23 13:58 · Score: -1, Redundant

Yes, define "Average User" because when we are talking about this user and Linux, [Linux] zealots mod us down as if this user is of no consequence when it comes to computer use.
What do we see now? What we see is you talking about the "Average User". Is it only windows that has the "Average User?"