Adobe plans emergency patch for critical Reader bug
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Adobe plans to release an emergency update patching a critical vulnerability in its ubiquitous Reader application that was disclosed at last week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
The fix will be made available during the week of August 16 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix versions of Adobe Reader 9.3.3, company officials said on Thursday. It will patch a hole that security researcher Charlie Miller disclosed during a talk demonstrating a tool called BitBlaze, which streamlines the analysis of crash bugs. Adobe has rated the vulnerability as critical because it can be exploited with little user interaction to remotely execute malicious code on a targeted system.
The announcement suggests that Adobe's security team is getting faster at responding to reported vulnerabilities. Over the past year, Reader has seen a string of unpatched vulnerabilities that have taken weeks to patch, even when the bugs are actively being exploited in the wild. And even then, updates often were available only for Windows, forcing Mac and Unix users to wait weeks for their patches.
Adobe has also pledged to add a security sandbox to the next major upgrade of Reader, a feature designed to mitigate the damage hackers can cause when software bugs are discovered.
There are no reports that that bug Miller disclosed is being exploited, but Adobe is going to release the patch outside of its next security update scheduled for October 12 anyway. We're guessing the out-of-band fix was prompted by several slides from his presentation that provided details that could make attacks possible. The vulnerability is indexed as CVE-2010-2862.
COMMENTS
Still totally clueless
Are they ever going to understand? It's a fucking READER. If it has any functions that need to run in a sandbox, REMOVE THE BUGGERS.
Plans? PLANS? This is news?!?
I plan to travel to the land of the rising sun, find the female definition of kawaiï, live happily ever after. Doesn't mean it will happen. Actually, I'm probably more likely to win the lottery. It's nice they're planning to patch a security fail, but isn't this something we ought to really expect from a company that's pushed its wares into the internet mainstream?
Thus, to badly misquote a popular film: Show me the patch.
Say it with me, SHOW ME THE PATCH. SHOW ME THE PAAAAAATCH!
iOS4 jailbreak?
Is this related to the iOS4 jailbreak flaws?
And is it possible the daily continued heavy beatings from Apple are finally having an effect?
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