Adobe Reader 8.12 released with security updates
November 6th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 38 times, 1 so far today
Adobe Reader 8.12 released with security updates
Adobe has released a new version of their Adobe Reader application.
Adobe Reader 8.12 is now available as a free download.
The company said that this release comes with fixes for eight major vulnerabilities.
Ivan Arce, CTO of Core Security Technologies spoke about the flaws in Adobe Reader: “As with many of today’s ubiquitous client-side applications, the sheer complexity of Adobe Reader creates a broad surface for potential vulnerabilities and, in this case, Adobe’s inclusion of a fully fledged JavaScript engine introduces the same types of implementation bugs commonly found in such sophisticated client-side programs.”
He added: “It’s worth noting that the bug was discovered while investigating a previously disclosed and similar problem in another PDF-viewer application, highlighting the manner in which common implementation mistakes are frequently shared among multiple vendors.”
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November 7th, 2008 at 01:02 am
Here’s a link to the actual Core Security vulnerability advisory on the CoreLabs homepage: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/adobe-reader-buffer-overflow .