Hot on the heels of a Flash Player critical vulnerability, Adobe has released a security bulletin outlining a critical vulnerability in all Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions prior to version 8.1.3. Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier versions. These vulnerabilities would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Acrobat and Reader version 9 is not vulnerable to these particular flaws. A few interesting things to note here. No patch for Acrobat/Reader 7 and earlier has been released. Additionally, the update is available only by moving to a new version of Acrobat/Reader, either version 8.1.3 or 9. This may cause significant pain and[…]
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I really like my mac. It usually is pretty secure. However, Apple just patched their copy of BIND yesterday. I just got the software update request today. This is almost a month since Kaminsky’s coordinated release of the DNS patch. I wonder why Apple was the recalcitrant one that waited so long? Could it be because the exploit was finally in the wild and was on longer just proof of concept? Could it be that the patch was more critical on servers rather than desktops, and desktops are Apple’s mainstay? Whatever the reason for Apple’s late release, it has made me think about Apple’s security practices. As far as I know, Apple doesn’t have a “patch Tuesday”, and the DNS[…]