Adobe confirms critical vulnerability after a remarkable delay

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Adobe has provided information with a workaround related to critical code execution vulnerability reported by Mr. Petko 
D. Petkov (aka pdp) on 20 th Sep.

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/0day-pdf-pwns-windows

That was almost three weeks ago...

The following advisory title states affected Acrobat versions:
Workaround available for vulnerability in versions 8.1 and earlier of Adobe Reader and Acrobat
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-04.html

Go and backup your registry and apply these changes!

Red Hat has officially informed Linux versions are not vulnerable.

- Juha-Matti
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