SANS ISC: InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog - Adobe Patch is out

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InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog

It looks like today will be patch day for a lot of folks.  It appears that  Adobe has released the patch for the Adobe Reader vulnerability is out.   Thanks to all of our readers that Abobe Bulletins that Handler Mark posted yesterday and Handler Bojan posted on July 23rd.

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The patches can be downloaded from Adobe's update site.

Thanks to all of our reader's that have notified us of the availability of the patch.

Update:  Here is some more information about the Adobe Updates that are available.  It appears that this update is for Adobe Flash Player.  According to the Adobe Security Advisory this is a critical vulnerability in the current versions of Flash Player and affects Windows, MAC and Linux OS's.  The information indicates that the vulnerability could crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.  The information provided by Adobe says that the vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.

www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-03.html

So bottom line... PATCH NOW.

Deb Hale Long Lines, LLC