Adobe to issue further Reader and Acrobat patches
Barely a month after Adobe issued a fix to mend a critical flaw in its Reader and Acrobat products, the company has been forced to rush out another owing to a serious bug in its Flash Player, which received a patch yesterday.
Adobe said in a security bulletin that the vulnerability, identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.42.34 and earlier, could be used by attackers to trick a web browser into executing code remotely.
This means that the browser could make an unauthorised cross domain request and directly install unauthorised software onto users' machines. Such flaws are commonly exploited by malware writers.
