ITSS-Advisory : MEDIUM : Adobe : Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat : Arbitrary Code Execution

THREAT LEVEL
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Medium.

INFORMATION
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On 09 June 2009, Adobe released a bulletin describing vulnerabilities in
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Accessing a specially crafted PDF file
may allow an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code
on the affected computer system.

More information is available at:
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-07.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568153

AFFECTED PLATFORMS
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Computers of various operating systems running:
- Adobe Reader 9.1.1 and earlier versions
- Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.1.1 and earlier versions
- Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1.1 and earlier versions
- Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended 9.1.1 and earlier versions

ACTION
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Administrators of affected computers are advised to review the bulletins,
test and apply relevant updates.

Links to download Adobe Reader are available at:
http://www.adobe.com/