The same researcher that recently discovered a flaw in Quicktime and Firefox alleges to have found a serious vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

I am closing the season with the following HIGH Risk vulnerability: Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one.

The issue is quite critical given the fact that PDF documents are in the core of today’s modern business. This and the fact that it may take a while for Adobe to fix their closed source product, are the reasons why I am not going to publish any POCs. You have to take my word for it. The POCs will be released when an update is available.

[0day: PDF pwns Windows]

[tags]antivirus, antivirus software, anti virus, anti virus software[/tags]