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Adobe Reschedules Reader and Acrobat Security Updates

Adobe announced on Monday night that the Adobe Reader and Acrobat security updates originally set to be released today, have been delayed until next week due to some problems that need to be addressed before being released to the public.

Adobe announced on Monday night that the Adobe Reader and Acrobat security updates originally set to be released today, have been delayed until next week due to some problems that need to be addressed before being released to the public.

“The security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat has been re-scheduled from September 9, 2014 to the week of September 15, 2014. This delay was necessary to address issues identified during routine regression testing,” Adobe said in its advisory.

 

The exact details of the vulnerabilities fixed with these updates are unknown, but the advisory shows that they’re critical security holes affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11.0.08 and earlier 11.x versions for Windows, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11.0.07 and earlier 11.x versions for Mac, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.11 and earlier 10.x versions for Windows, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.10 and earlier 10.x versions for Mac.

The updates have a priority rating of 1, which indicates that the vulnerabilities they address are either being exploited, or they have a high risk of being exploited in the wild. The company advises administrators to apply such updates as soon as possible.

Last month, Adobe rolled out updates to address several critical flaws in Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat. One of the security holes affecting the Windows versions of Reader and Acrobat (CVE-2014-0546) has been exploited in the wild.

The vulnerability, identified and reported by Costin Raiu and Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab, is a sandbox bypass issue that can be leveraged to execute code with escalated privileges. The flaw had been exploited in targeted attacks.

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is a contributing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher for two years before starting a career in journalism as Softpedia’s security news reporter. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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