ADOBE security screwup

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Thu Dec 16 10:38:57 2004 ADOBE security screwup
Posted by Tony Lawrence
Search Keys: security
Referencing: http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2818

Sheesh. A simple overflow bug. You'd think by now that nobody would make mistakes like this, but they do.

The bug of course affects both Windows and other platforms, including Mac OS X. Updates are supposedly available at Adobe's site, though when I just quickly checked now I only saw mention of a Windows SP2 related problem. This fix is probably there somewhere; I'll just have to look harder.

Ahh, I see: they don't talk about this. I fired up my Mac Reader and asked it to check for updates; it says there are none. On Windows, I was way out of date, so I downloaded version 6.0.1, which in turn can be updated to 6.0.2. But there is no mention of 6.0.3 which supposedly fixes this bug. Also, I couldn't even get the 6.0.2 update to install - it just fails on my wife's Windows machine. Great job, Adobe!

Important comment moved into main text:

The 6.0.2 patch is one of the more bizarre software patches I've
ever seen. Fortunately, you can download a massive 34MB integrated
version of 6.0.2 from

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html

(Uninstall 6.0.1 first.)

References to 6.0.3 have not yet been posted; the "new downloads"
web page is actually unavailable at this moment.

--Bob 
 

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