zero day | DataProtectionCenter.com

Analyzing the First ROP-Only, Sandbox-Escaping PDF Exploit

16

Feb

2013

The winter of 2013 seems to be “zero-day” season. Right after my colleague Haifei Li analyzed the powerful Flash zero day last week, Adobe sent a security alert for another zero-day attack targeting the latest (and earlier) versions of Adobe Reader. Unlike Internet Explorer zero-day exploits that we have seen in the past, this Reader […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

New Adobe PDF Zero-day Unleashes Trojan.Swaylib

15

Feb

2013

In a previous blog, Symantec reported on a new Adobe zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0640, CVE-2013-0641) affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.1) and earlier versions, that was being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has yet to release a patch for this zero-day, but in an advisory they have provided a means of mitigation against the […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

Mitigate the Adobe Reader/Acrobat XI Vulnerability

14

Feb

2013

News broke yesterday regarding a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI. Adobe released its Security Advisory last night which includes some important mitigation options. Users can protect themselves by enabling “Protected View”. Here’s what the setting looks like in Adobe Reader XI running on Windows 8. Adobe recommends choosing the “Files from potentially […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘zero day’

Analyzing the First ROP-Only, Sandbox-Escaping PDF Exploit

New Adobe PDF Zero-day Unleashes Trojan.Swaylib

Mitigate the Adobe Reader/Acrobat XI Vulnerability

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us