Adobe PDF zero-day vunerabilty. Disable JavaScript Now

by certifiedbug on December 16, 2009

in Internet Security

Yet another critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems.

There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, at this time there is no patch or update available.

Disable JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. For instance in Acrobat Reader click: Edit > Preferences > JavaScript and uncheck Enable Acrobat JavaScript.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Advisory

Threatpost: How to mitigate Adobe PDF malware attacks

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