Adobe January 2012 Black Tuesday overview

Adobe has released 1 bulletin today.

This updates Adobe products to the following versions:

Adobe Reader and Acrobat
- 10.1.1 and previous

#	Affected	Known Exploits	Adobe rating
APSB12-01	Multiple vulnerabilities in the adobe reader and adobe acrobat software allow privilege escalation (windows only) or random code execution.
APSB12-01	Reader & Acrobat CVE-2011-2462 CVE-2011-4369 CVE-2011-4370 CVE-2011-4371 CVE-2011-4372 CVE-2011-4373	Could allow for remote code execution. Update to 10.1.2 or 9.5.	Critical

APSB11-30 and APSA11-04 were also updated.

Next scheduled Adobe security update is 10 April 2012.

Cheers,
Adrien de Beaupré
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Adrien de Beaupre

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Jan 10th 2012

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Jan 10th 2012
9 years ago

Hi,

On reading the release docs, it appears version 8.3 isn't affected. Anyone else come to that conclusion? Are we finally doing better running and ancient version than the latest?

Anonymous

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Jan 10th 2012
9 years ago

Looking at the revised bulletin, APSB 11-30, it appears that Linux users need an update also. Under "Affected Software":
Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux

Under "Solutions":
Adobe Reader 9.x users on Linux can find the appropriate update here:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/.

Cheers,
Rich

RichG74

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Jan 10th 2012
9 years ago

Repete - Adobe end of life'd Acrobat 8.x, so there are no patches at all and there wasn't any mention of 8.x in the last security bulletin. Scary times.

Anonymous

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Jan 10th 2012
9 years ago

After upgrading to 10.1.2 our machines (XP SP3) started duplex printing pdfs by default. After some digging, creating/changing this key fixes the problem:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\AVGeneral]
"iprintBookletDuplexMode"=dword:00000001

Maybe this will help someone else.
-Joel

Joel B

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Jan 11th 2012
9 years ago

Perhaps I've missed something, but it appears to me that it has now been 34 days since the 0-day was announced in Adobe Flash 11.1.102.55 (see http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=12166) and there has yet to be even an acknowledgment from Adobe that they are working on the issue.

Anonymous

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Jan 11th 2012
9 years ago

Correction,
"iDuplexMode"=dword:00000001

NOT iprintBookletDuplexMode
Sorry for the confusion.
-Joel

Joel B

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Jan 11th 2012
9 years ago

@Anyonymous.
It's scheduled to be released two and three quarters days after you've finished patching all your Acrobat Reader installations.

Joel B
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Jan 13th 2012
9 years ago