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Adobe Reader 9.2.0 fixes 28 security holes

by on14 October 2009

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A large
portion of today’s internet economy thrives on the products of a once young company based out of Mountain View, California that took the World Wide Web by surprise with its creation of multimedia products, creativity products, and most notably its rich Internet application solutions.

We need not tout about the astronomically high adoption rate that Adobe Flash Player has received in the current internet market, but in the same respects, Adobe Reader also maintains a significant user base that must be respected for its consecutively growing success over the years.

As such, it should be made known to users that Adobe recently released a security bulletin that includes fixes for 28 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat 9.1.3, including a critical hole that may cause the application to crash and an attacker to compromise the affected system. Sure, this sounds like Microsoft Windows Update jargon but the reality of the situation is nonetheless true.

The latest 9.2.0 update specifically resolves this critical vulnerability as well as several input validation issues, a buffer overflow issue, a few memory corruption issues, a few integer overflow issues, a remote denial-of-service issue, and a stack overflow issue. To say the least, Adobe categories this as a “critical update.”

Adobe Reader 9.2.0 can be downloaded here.
Last modified on 14 October 2009
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