Adobe patches holes in Acrobat Reader
Adobe has patched two bugs in its Acrobat Reader application that could allow an attacker to take over a user’s system via a malicious PDF attached to an e-mail message. The bugs affect Windows, Mac OS X and Unix.
Security research company iDefense warned of the bug affecting Windows and Mac in an advisory published on the Bugtraq mailing list late on Tuesday. The problem is a format string vulnerability in version 6.0.2 of Adobe Reader, allowing users to craft a special .etd file that could cause an invalid memory access and allow for the execution of malicious code with the privileges of the user. Reader uses .etd files in handling eBooks.
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