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Adobe releases emergency patches
SOFTWARE HOUSE Adobe has released emergency patches for critical vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.
The fixes seem to be covering holes disclosed by researcher Charlie Miller at last month's Black Hat security conference. Miller has made a name for himself picking holes in Adobe's popular Reader PDF viewer.
The vulnerability is in Reader's and Acrobat's font parsing, but is not connected with the flaw exploited by hackers to jailbreak Apple's IOS 4 earlier this month.
Adobe has made it clear that it was unaware of any exploits in the wild and that this release does not affect the date of the next scheduled quarterly update on 12 October.
The security information has been released here. And while they are jolly good for users you have to feel a bit sorry for site administrators who thought they didn't have to mess around with their Adobe software again until October. µ
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Secunia agrees that current flash (10.1.82.76) isn't vuln at present.
Please include a cite to the flash vuln statement by adobe or edit flash out.
Coders or crackers like to hack into comupters that don't belong to them and play around there. So, they love Adobe when stuff like this happens.
It's sad that software most people need for the Internet is so unsafe and they CAN do much better but they won't. In this country(U.S.) it's always about the money not about the product. It didn't used to be this way. No pride,no shame.
why do adobe products have to be so secure?
do coders hate adobe? if so why?
i can understand why coders hate microsoft products but is adobe of the same ilk?
how many fixes has adobe had to release this yeah? and this is whats supposed to be allowed on the iPhone??
I assume that these are the updates that my PC collected rather more than twelve hours ago, which leaves me wondering about your news cycle.
If they a{en't then I have more to wonder about.
Incidentally, are we stuck now with either self-update or Adobe Download Manager or both to update our PCs with this softwae!re installed, or is there another way? And, just to check, if I personally own more than one computer, am I allowed to install Adobe viewer programs on all of them? I think the licence says "the right to install on 1 computer, and not any of your micro-tablets or smart phones, either, it's got to be a Windows (or other) PC."
Mind you, Opera does the last part, too. If you find a way to execute the desktop Opera program on your iPad, then you're not even on your own. Well... maybe if you can get your slate to run Linux, and the Linux Opera - or not then, either?