Just hours after Adobe fixed a vulnerability in its PDF viewing applications, users became warned of a continuing security threat.
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader became hot programs for spammers after a glitch was discovered to exploit the program’s “mailto” command. Hackers used this in connection with a malicious PDF code to send out bulk e-mails with dangerous PDF attachments.
Adobe said on Wednesday some of its programs contain yet-to-be-fixed flaws that make computers vulnerable to attack.
On October 5, Adobe posted a notice on its Web site that said it had unknowingly incorporated vulnerabilities into versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat software that could allow malicious programs to get on to a PC without the user’s knowledge.
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Adobe announces partnerships with content developers that it hopes will drive demand for Media Player, now scheduled to ship before July 2008.
Adobe announced Monday the acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, the maker of a Web-based, multiuser word processor called Buzzword. Adobe also spun out the beta of a new service called Share that allows users to share and work on documents together online, as well as publish them to wikis or Web pages.
A zero-day PDF vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat Reader has come to light that can lead to Windows boxes getting taken over completely and invisibly, according to a security researcher.
“All it takes is to open a [maliciously rigged] PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one,” said researcher Petko D. Petkov, aka pdp, in a blog posting on Sept. 20.
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