[Important] - IT Security Services - Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat released

To Administrators of computers running Adobe products

ITSS-Advisory : MEDIUM : Adobe : Acrobat and Reader : Update released

It would be appreciated if this information can be communicated
to students and staff through appropriate means, such as notice
boards or linked through web information services.
The web address of this article is:
[http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/it-security/14-10-2009.html]


THREAT LEVEL
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Medium.


INFORMATION
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On 13 Oct 2009, Adobe released security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
This update fixes a number of vulnerabilities. The impacts include arbitrary
code execution on an affected computer.

More information is available at:
[www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html]


AFFECTED PLATFORMS
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Computers of various operating systems running Adobe Acrobat and/or Adobe Reader
versions 9.1.3 and earlier.


ACTION
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Administrators of affected computers are advised to review the bulletin, test
and update to version 9.2 where possible. Links to the updates and information
on fixes for earlier versions are available at:
[www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html]

announced at 14/10/2009