Sunday, March 1, 2009

Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 0Day Vulnerability

Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 found to be vulnerable to a 0day exploit where Adobe is planning to release the patches on 11th March 2009:

http://secunia.com/blog/44/

In the first place, the security specialist said that users can be protected by disabling the Javascript on Adobe, which can be found here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/90132463/a01aa640/Adobe_JS_Fix.html


Lately security specialist from Secunia reported that disabling the Javascript cannot eliminate all the risk, more information can be found here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html

Conclusion

The only mitigation is avoid opening PDF document from unknown source or cross the finger to wait the 11th March 2009 to reach :)

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