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davidh
January 14th, 2010, 01:05 AM
Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Release date: January 12, 2010

Vulnerability identifier: APSB10-02

CVE numbers: CVE-2009-3953, CVE-2009-3954, CVE-2009-3955, CVE-2009-3956, CVE-2009-3957, CVE-2009-3958, CVE-2009-3959, CVE-2009-4324

Platform: All
Summary

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows and Macintosh. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html
I used Secunia PSI to point me to the update on adobe.com The new version of Reader is 9.3.0

I don't like the update process. Forced me to install Adobe DLM (download manager). And tried to install Adobe AIR. But I think I blocked the AIR install when Zone Alarm asked me to allow internet access to the AIR installer.

Maybe there's a cleaner way to update via the Adobe Reader itself. I forget.