Registry hack provides temporary fix for vulnerability.
Adobe
has officially confirmed the vulnerability
announced last month
by researcher Petko Petkov, which could allow maliciously crafted PDF files to breach security and compromise systems.
Limited details of the flaw were made public and led to widespread concern over the security of the widely used document format.
Adobe
has responded by posting details of a workaround, involving changes to the
Windows
registry, and hopes to have a full fix released as an update to affected products by the end of October. No attack exploiting the flaw has yet been reported.
Adobe
‘s announcement, and detailed instructions for the registry workaround, are
here
Posted on 09 October 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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