Adobe ships another mega-patch for PDF Reader

[nsane.forums]

Adobe has slapped another band-aid on its heavily targeted PDF Reader/Acrobat product line, warning that hackers are already exploiting some of these vulnerabilities to launch malware attacks. The latest mega-patch, available for Windows, Mac and UNIX users, covers a whopping 23 security flaws that could cause software crashes or remote code execution attacks.

Affected Software Versions:

• Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX
• Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

The company rates these vulnerabilities as "critical" and urged users to immediately upgrade to Adobe Reader 9.4.

This patch batch was rushed out in response to zero-day attacks that exploited at least two of the 23 security holes.

The next quarterly security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat are scheduled for February 8, 2011.

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[*dcs18]

I wish they would bring a stop to the patchwork on the Acrobat and work it from ground up - it's just bloating into GBs of HDD. The last 24 hrs. has seen hectic updates from every major Developer in the PDF segment.

[sanjoa]

It's better to use Foxit reader. So many holes on Adobe Reader.

[*dcs18]

Foxit rocks, I used it for quite some time - try PDF-XChange Pro (it's superb.)

[implague]

@dcs as u say pdf-xchange pro is superb but its not freeso if u hav ne working patch or crack or serial plz do post as we all like to use that for sure its a superb application works gr8 and said so it has many option looking forward for the patch or serial