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.