Adobe offers Acrobat, Reader security fixes

Adobe today released important security updates to its line of Acrobat software, including its Acrobat Reader 7.03 and Acrobat Reader 6.04, its freeware software solutions for browsing PDF documents. The company also posted free updates to Acrobat Standard 7.03 and Acrobat Professional 7.03 updates as well as an update to previous versions of its software: Adobe Acrobat 5.0.10 Standard, amd Acrobat 6.0.4 Standard and Professional. The company says the updates address a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core application plug-in that could trigger a buffer overflow as a malicious PDF file is being loaded, causing the application to crash and increase the risk of malicious code execution. (Adobe also recently posted updates for Adobe Stock Photos 1.0.3 and Update 2 for Adobe Version Cue 1.x Workspace as well as Adobe Version Cue CS2 Access Utility.)

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