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[DarkFiber Consulting - IT Managed Services] Disable Flash in Adobe Reader 9 on Windows platforms by renaming the following files: “%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\authplay.dll” and “%ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\rt3d.dll”.
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[FukDatShhh.CoM] Hackers exploit Adobe Flash, Reader flaw - FukDatShhh.CoM: Adobe Systems Inc., the San Jose, Calif., maker of the video player and tool for opening PDF documents, is scrambling to develop an emergency patch by Friday, the company says.
[Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)] Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT): Potential ...: Adobe is aware of reports of a potential vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10. We are currently investigating this potential issue and will have an update once we get more information.
[Software news] » Recently Reported Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player ...: If you are not familiar with the security vulnerability in question, here is a brief description: it affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.2 and earlier 9.x versions; Adobe Flash Player 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87 and earlier 9.x and 10.x versions, it has been rated by Adobe as critical, and a patch is supposed to be rolled out on July 30th (for Flash Player v9 and v10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux) and July 31st (for Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.1.2 for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX).
[SpywareRemove Blog] Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player Hold Critical ...: As well as explaining the issue, the security bulletin also highlights methods that may help to a small degree in managing the problem Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player are now facing. Hopefully this will continue to keep you safe until the patches arrive at the end of the month.
[Software news] » Adobe Acknowledges Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player Critical ...: Until a fix is released, Adobe advises you to use this mitigation: “Deleting, renaming, or removing access to the authplay.dll file that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x mitigates the threat for those products, but users will experience a non-exploitable crash or error message when opening a PDF that contains SWF content. Depending on the product, the authplay.dll that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows is typically located at C:Program FilesAdobeReader 9.0Readerauthplay.dll or C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 9.0]Acrobatauthplay.dll.
[The H - news feed] Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat ...: Adobe is working on a solution to the problem and believes that it will be able to provide an update by the 30th of July for Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, with the Solaris version following a little later. The update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, at least for Windows and Mac, is expected to appear on 31 July.
[Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)] Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT): Update on ...: Deleting, renaming, or removing access to the authplay.dll file that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x mitigates the threat for those products, but users will experience a non-exploitable crash or error message when opening a PDF that contains SWF content. Depending on the product, the authplay.dll that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows is typically located at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\authplay.dll or C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0]\Acrobat\authplay.dll.
[Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts] Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player Vulnerabilities Remain ...: If you are like most computer users, you were probably only minimally interested in installing the latest updates of Adobe products since you may not have been aware of the important security patches they contain. In fact, you may not be aware of how important it is to keep all installed applications up to date, and patched.
[WebKetu] Adobe Flash Vulnerability allows Remote attack via Pdf file | WebKetu: A critical vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x for .of the Flash vulnerability and in addition, for those not using Symantec products, if the user-access control in Windows Vista is open, this will also prevent the exploit from executing, Fossi said.
[Smooth Blog] Hacking - New exploit vulnerability in Adobe Flash / Reader ...: In an advisory that was updated after this article was published, Adobe says the “vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems.”
[ThreatBlog] Adobe Updates | ThreatBlog: As Graham Cluley rightly points out in his blog on the same topic, Adobe has become almost the target of choice among black hats recently. (No, I haven’t got notification from Adobe yet: a good job I read other blogs, isn’t it?)
[Security4all - Dedicated to digital security, enterprise 2.0 and presentation skills] 0-Day in Adobe Flash, also executable from Acrobat Reader (updated ...: However, the vulnerable component is actually the Flash player or, better said, the code used by the Flash player which is obviously shared with Adobe Reader/Acrobat. This increases the number of vectors for this attack: the malicious Flash file can be embedded in PDF documents which will cause Adobe Reader to execute it OR it can be used to exploit the Flash player directly, making it a drive-by attack as well.
[CyberInsecure.com] Confirmed Zero-day Flash Vulnerability In Latest Adobe Reader And ...: Security was also at issue this week when Danish bug tracker Secunia noticed that Adobe continues to provide an outdated edition of Reader for download. Yesterday, Adobe reacted to Secunia’s report by saying it was reevaluating how its software updater operated.
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