Adobe Acrobat 8 full of holes

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Users of version 8 of Adobe's ubiquitous PDF reader software should patch immediately to version 8.1.3 or upgrade to version 9 to prevent problems caused by serious flaws in the software.

Adobe Acrobat 8 full of holes
Version 8.1.2 suffers from a stack buffer overflow when parsing some invalid PDF files.

The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing format strings containing a floating point specifier in a certain JavaScript function.

The vulnerability requires that users open a maliciously crafted PDF file thereby allowing attackers to gain access to vulnerable systems and assume the privileges of a user running Acrobat Reader.

Adobe Reader version 9, which was released in June 2008, is not vulnerable to the problem.
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