Adobe to release emergency Reader and Acrobat patches

[Simon]

Adobe will make an emergency patch available this week to protect its Reader and Acrobat software against a zero-day exploit.

The exploits, known as CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641, were first reported on 12 February by security firm FireEye, and target both Windows and Mac versions of Reader and Acrobat.

Reader version 9 and newer is affected across Mac, Windows and Linux platforms, and versions X and XI are affected on Mac and PCs. For Acrobat, version 9 and newer are affected.

The exploit relies on the user opening a rogue PDF attached to an email. The PDF crashes Acrobat, which when restarted calls back to a remote domain, delivering user keystrokes such as usernames and passwords.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/380023/adobe-to-release-emergency-reader-and-acrobat-patches#ixzz2LFl2li00

[Clive]

Another day, another patch.   

[Simon]

They'll be coming along hourly soon...   

[Clive]