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Old September 14th, 2012, 01:05 PM
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Default New PDF Attack Targets Aviation Defense Industry

New PDF Attack Targets Aviation Defense Industry:
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FireEye reported today it had detected a new critical PDF attack targeting the aviation defense industry. Malware Page exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. An attacker would be able to execute code remotely via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, according to the CVE alert.
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ne...ndustry-091312
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Old September 15th, 2012, 04:18 AM
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Default Re: New PDF Attack Targets Aviation Defense Industry

They seem to refer to Adobe Acroba 9 and earlier versions. So, if you are on the latest X you should be fine (?).
 

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