Critical Zero-Day PDF Bug Compromises Windows PCs
Posted by Donster on: 2007-09-21 15:07:01 560
By Lisa Vaas @ eWEEK

A zero-day PDF vulnerability in Adobe's Acrobat Reader has come to light that can lead to Windows boxes getting taken over completely and invisibly, according to a security researcher.

"All it takes is to open a [maliciously rigged] PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one," said researcher Petko D. Petkov, aka pdp, in a blog posting on Sept. 20.

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