The "cyber community" already has started to sort it out:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/0032201

--Doug

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote:

> Parks, Raymond wrote:
>
>>  We (SNL) did that briefly last summer because of the vulnerabilities
>> with Acrobat and Reader versions < 8.2.  Once we got everyone converted
>> to 9.0, we allowed those attachments.  I know it was a real problem
>> because we spearphished a customer with the Adobe vulnerability as part
>> of a red-team engagement.
>>
> It's also 9.0 vulnerability and Adobe doesn't expect to have a fix until
> March 11 and earlier versions after that.  Further they say that they don't
> know if non-Adobe PDF readers are immune or not.  This says to me that they
> don't really know any details and are just relying on the "cyber community"
> and the vendors to sort things out.
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