Security Tweaks for Adobe Reader
Summary: Adobe planned to ship an update a week from the post date to fix a critical vulnerability in its free PDF Reader, while the SANS Internet Storm Center reported it was beginning to receive submissions of malicious PDFs exploiting the flaw. Until the patch, the recommended mitigation was to disable JavaScript in Reader, and Adobe was said to be planning silent patching that requires no user action.
What you should know: Adobe Reader's ubiquity made it a target, and the existing update component prompted users who, in the source's words, ignore that warning over and over again - so the exposure window ran until the patch shipped.
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