Adobe preps PDF patches for Reader
Adobe on Thursday will announce the patches it plans to deliver next week for its PDF software, a part of its quarterly security update process.
The impending updates will come on the heels of Adobe urging users yesterday to beef up defenses in Reader and Acrobat. The company also said it may issue a patch for the design flaw, which lets attackers run executable code on a Windows PC from a malformed PDF without needing to exploit an actual vulnerability. It's unlikely that the patch will appear next week, however.
Like Microsoft , Adobe notifies users prior to issuing security updates for its Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat programs, providing bare-bones information to give consumers and corporate administrators a heads-up. Adobe will issue patches for Reader and Acrobat on Tuesday, April 13, the same day Microsoft will also release updates for its operating system and other software.
