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Adobe Acrobat Reader Users: Update Now or Risk a Zero-Day Meltdown!
Cybersecurity researcher urges users to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader after a critical zero-day flaw, CVE-2024-41869, was patched. This use after free vulnerability could lead to remote code execution with a specially crafted PDF.
Hot Take:
Adobe Acrobat Reader: now with fewer “use after free” bugs! In other news, water is wet, and the sky is blue. If you’re still opening PDFs without updating, you might as well be sending your personal data to hackers on a silver platter.
Key Points:
- Critical zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-41869 discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- This “use after free” bug allows for remote code execution via malicious PDFs.
- Initial patch in August was ineffective; bug persisted after closing dialogs.
- New security update released yesterday successfully patches the flaw.
- Details on the discovery process to be published by EXPMON’s creator, Haifei Li.
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