Adobe has release one security bulletin that describes 6 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat X 10.1.1. and earlier. Adobe says that most of them involve memory corruption issues within Reader and Acrobat components.
Why is this important?
If an attacker can get you to open a specially crafted PDF file, he can exploit these types of issues to execute computer code on your computer.
If you have root or system administrator privileges the attacker gains complete control of your machine. To fix these issues Adobe has released these solution paths.
You should download and deploy the corresponding updates immediately, or let the Adobe Software Updater program do it for you.
· Adobe Reader X 10.1.2
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· Adobe Acrobat X 10.1.2
