Adobe to patch Reader zero-day this week
Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week.
Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make available updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat ... during the week of February 18, 2013," the company said in its security incident response team's blog Saturday.
An associated security advisory, first issued last Wednesday, has also been updated to reflect the impending updates to Reader for Windows, OS X and Linux. News of the Adobe Reader vulnerabilities surfaced Feb. 13 when researchers from security vendor FireEye reported that attackers were exploiting the bugs, which exist in the latest versions of the popular PDF-viewing software.