Tuesday, 24 February 2009

PDF Threat

The threat for PDF to Adobe The users adobe acrobat reader, was appealed to to more careful when opening PDF, because of being flawed in this software.


Adobe received the report that there is the report on the attack that beforehand was not yet known in the two Adobe Reader defects and Acrobat. This attack was carried out by the aggressor for the execution of the code from the long distance.

According to developing rumours, this caused the effect for Acrobat and reader the version of nine and beforehand. According to the security firm from Shadowserver, this sensitivity was located in the two programs JavaScript available in pdf file.

File that was infected triggered the memory buffer overflow, that in turn will enable the aggressor to mengeksekusi the code from the long distance in the target system.

Adobe hoped that the users must see the improvement that will be carried out on March 11 2009. In the meantime, the researchers, both in Shadowserver and US Computer Emergency Response Tem suggested that the users deactivated the document capacity to undertake the code javaScript in Acrobat and Reader through the application of panel preference.
 
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