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New Zero-Day Attack in Adobe Products (CVE-2011-2462)

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Dec

2011

Recently, Adobe has released a new security advisory, APSA11-04, alerting users about a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. This means that the malicious files could be downloaded or dropped on the […]

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Adobe Flash “SWF” Exploit still in the Wild.

11

Nov

2011

A vulnerability reported in Adobe Flash in April 2011 (CVE-2011-0611) continues to be targeted. When first reported, the vulnerability was widely exploited by embedding a “.swf” file into Microsoft Office documents/html pages. Adobe issued patch for this vulnerability soon after it was reported, but the vulnerability remains a popular target. Source of hxxp://220.181.23.217/baike/mhxy.html : This […]

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Many updates for Windows, Java, Adobe, Thunderbird and Firefox

10

Nov

2011

This week has been a very busy one for Microsoft, Sun, Adobe and Mozilla Foundation. We have seen the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-037 announcing the patch of some vulnerabilities which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or operate with elevated privileges. Adobe released a Security Bulletin for Adobe Shockwave […]

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