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US-CERT Current Activity

Adobe Releases Security Advisory for Vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat

Original release date: September 13, 2010 at 8:30 am
Last revised: September 13, 2010 at 8:30 am


Adobe has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in
Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow
an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service
condition. The advisory indicates that this vulnerability is being
actively exploited.

US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe security
advisory APSA10-02 and consider implementing the suggested workaround
of utilizing Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Toolkit (EMET) to help
prevent this vulnerability from being exploited. Additional
information on EMET can be found on the Microsoft Security Research
and Defense blog.

US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.

Relevant Url(s):
<http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html>

<http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/09/10/use-emet-2-0-to-block-the-adobe-0-day-exploit.aspx>

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