Adobe has identified a critical security vulnerability in all recent versions of Acrobat and Reader, the company's software for creating and viewing files in portable document format, on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
A buffer overflow issue in versions 7, 8, and 9 of Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, as well as versions 7, 8, and 9 of the free Adobe Reader can cause crashing, and can also be exploited to take control of a users system. Adobe has received reports that exploits are already in the wild.
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