Hello WAMUGers,
FYI the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is 6.1 & can be
downloaded here:
It is a 21.0MB download.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
I read the article below in The Age on Friday & decided to send it to
WAMUG in case someone has not heard about it.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/05/1078378951326.html
By Sam Varghese
March 5, 2004
Security consulting firm NGSSoftware has advised users of version 5.1
of Adobe Acrobat Reader to upgrade to the latest version following the
discovery of a highly critical vulnerability that could lead to the
leaking of data.
NGSSoftware found a data format buffer overflow in this version of the
popular software, which could potentially be exploited by malicious
people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
debugging functionality when parsing documents in the XML forms data
format (".xfdf"). This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by
tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted XFDF document.
NGSSoftware said it had contacted Adobe and been told that the latest
version of the reader, 6.0, did not suffer from this flaw.
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Cheers,
Ronni
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a
life. " - Arthur Ashe
