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Security Advisory: Acrobat and Adobe Reader plug-in buffer overflow
Adobe today issued a security advisory relating to a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. Identified as a buffer overflow within a core plug-in that is part of both products, the vulnerability could be exploited to crash the application with an increased risk of malicious code execution.
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Last week, Adobe Systems acknowledged a vulnerability in versions of Adobe Reader written for UNIX platforms. The flaw, first reported by security firm IDefense, allows a buffer overflow to be exploited to execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the local user.
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