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By Elinor Mills CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Oct 14, 2009 7:19:41 AM

Adobe on Tuesday released a security bulletin that includes fixes for 28 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, including a critical hole that has reportedly been exploited in the wild in limited attacks.

Also read: New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday

Affected software includes version 9.1.3 of Reader and Acrobat; Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix; and version 7.1.3 of Reader and Acrobat for Windows and Macintosh. The vulnerabilities could cause the applications to crash and could allow an attacker to take control of a user's computer, according to the security advisory.

One of the updates addresses a hole that Trend Micro says has been exploited by a Trojan horse that arrives as a PDF file containing malicious JavaScript. That exploit affects Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, according to Trend Micro.

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I don't understand why Adobe has gone this route with recent Acrobat Reader releases. What I want in a pdf reader is something fast and light, what I have is something slow which takes an age to load ... (Read the rest)
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Because software is written by humans. And humans make mistakes.  ye | 10/14/09
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