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New Adobe PDF Zero-Day Under Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-and-cover dept.

Rahmmp writes "Adobe has sounded an alarm for a new zero-day flaw in its PDF Reader/Acrobat software, warning that hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability in-the-wild. An Adobe spokeswoman described the attacks as 'limited' but warned that that could change with the availability of public samples and exploit code."

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  1. Re:What is this stupidity??? by SQL+Error · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They took a document programming language and stripped out all the programming features to make a document description format.

    And then they added a programming language.

  2. Re:What is this stupidity??? by drolli · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let me add: They started from a programming language where security is *easy to implement*.

  3. Evince, Okular, xpdf? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, are any of the viewers I use vulnerable?

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  4. Re:What is this stupidity??? by Lennie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Funny you should mention that one, the last non-scripting exploit for Adobe Acrobat Reader was also an exploit for Foxit Reader.

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