A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1 and earlier versions. The bug, codenamed CVE-2009-1492, causes the application to crash and could allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. A second vulnerability has also been reported that appears to affect Adobe Reader for UNIX only (codename CVE-2009-1493).
Adobe recommends that you update to Adobe Reader 9.1.1 and Acrobat 9.1.1. To download the patch and read more about the problem, see the Adobe security bulletin.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on May 14, 2009
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