Adobe 0-day update
Summary: Cisco Talos describes tracking an Adobe Acroread bug in which changing a value in the file stops the crash, because Acroread silently gives up and renders what it can rather than reporting an error. The researcher says the sample called a 0-day on the SANS website was actually a geticonv bug, a separate live exploit, and that the patch released on the 22nd targets the Acroread version just before the one released on the 23rd, so it will not work on the latest version.
Key Takeaway: The recommended workaround is to delete authplay.dll, which crashes the program on load because some code paths do not check error codes, and the patch already misses the newest Acroread build released one day later.
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