Safe PDFs are almost here: Adobe to release Reader, Acrobat zero-day patch this week

JMH · Feb 18, 2013

Summary: Adobe is rushing out a patch for Reader and Acrobat flaws that hackers are already exploiting.

Adobe will release a patch this week to close holes in the latest versions of Acrobat and Reader X and XI that hackers are already exploiting.

The patch for two memory corruption flaws affecting Reader and Acrobat on Windows, Mac and Linux machines will be delivered "during the week of February 18, 2013", the company said in an update on Saturday.

Adobe confirmed last week that attackers were targeting Windows users with malicious PDFs that exploited the flaws and allowed them to bypass Adobe's Protected Mode sandbox. Protected Mode was designed to stop malware installing by running processes for displaying PDF files in an isolated container.

Safe PDFs are almost here: Adobe to release Reader, Acrobat zero-day patch this week | ZDNet

AceInfinity · Feb 18, 2013

I wouldn't say safe lol, but safe as far as public knowledge. You can't guarantee safety in security today, you can only put faith into it if it's unknown to be broken or bypassed. Someone could have already came up with another exploit today, but it takes a while to hit public knowledge.

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Safe PDFs are almost here: Adobe to release Reader, Acrobat zero-day patch this week

JMH

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