Tag: adobe
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Patches come thick and fast in major update spree
Monthly and out-of-band issues flood admins’ to-do lists. The release of this month’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins from Microsoft , with a fairly average 10 alerts covering 34 separate vulnerabilities, is accompanied by a number of additional fixes and updates which will keep security admins busy this week. Adobe has announced plans to provide an…
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Patch Tuesday release includes 13 bulletins
26 vulnerabilities featured in sizeable update set. After a relatively quiet January, administrators are faced with a hefty workload this week as Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security release featured 13 updates covering 26 separate issues with Windows and other Microsoft software. In five bulletins labelled ‘Critical’, remote code execution problems with TCP/IP, SMB clients,…
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IE zero-day bug fixed in Patch Tuesday updates
Serious browser bug main feature of monthly alerts, Adobe Flash issue also patched. Microsoft has released the December Patch Tuesday security bulletin, with a total of six alerts. The most significant issue covered is a serious vulnerability in the Internet Explorer browser software. Three of the six bulletins were marked as ‘Critical’, with vulnerabilities in…
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Bumper crop of October patch releases
Busy weeks for admins as Patch Tuesday joined by Adobe fixes, and Mozilla announces plug-in checking plans. This week has seen Microsoft ‘s monthly Patch Tuesday release of security updates, featuring a larger than usual 13 fixes, joined by a set of patches from Adobe for its widely-used PDF-handling software. With home and business users…
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Security holes trouble vendors
Vulnerabilities fixed in McAfee website and Google Chrome; patch expected for Adobe Reader. A range of vulnerabilities have been causing headaches recently for companies including security vendor McAfee , the Internet browser arm of Google and PDF reader giant Adobe . McAfee came in for criticism when it was discovered that McAfee Secure – the…
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March Patch Tuesday followed by PDF viewer patches
Major kernel issue and PDF problems fixed, spreadsheet software remains vulnerable. Microsoft released the March security bulletin this week, with the monthly Patch Tuesday updates rather lighter than usual. On the same day, Adobe released some important patches for its widely used PDF viewing software. From Microsoft came a single ‘critical’ fix for the Windows…
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More PDF exploits seen in wild
Adobe Reader and Acrobat flaws open way for further document attacks. A string of vulnerabilities in Adobe ‘s PDF viewing and editing software, disclosed late last week by Adobe and iDefense , have been exploited by malicious attacks using PDF files to launch malware. The flaws, which include several buffer overflows, a library path vulnerability…
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PDF trojan exploits Adobe flaw
Reader/Acrobat vulnerability targeted day after patch release. A vulnerability in Adobe ‘s popular PDF-viewing software Adobe Reader and editing suite Acrobat , first reported a month ago , was patched on Monday in an update released two weeks after the company issued a workaround to minimise exposure. The following day, PDFs containing exploits for the…
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Adobe acknowledges PDF flaw, issues workaround
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.…
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Alarm over possible PDF flaw
Vulnerability announcement hyped to disaster level. The announcement of a potentially serious vulnerability in the ubiquitous Adobe PDF document format sparked considerable media attention last month, in some cases hyped to the level of a major disaster waiting to happen. The vulnerability was found by researcher Petko Petkov and was announced in a blog entry.…