While users wait for Adobe to issue a patch for the zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, there are measures people can take to protect themselves. Here is some advice from security pros on how to mitigate the vulnerability.
– It’s no secret there is a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
A solution, however, has been more elusive.
According to Secunia, the vulnerability affects versions 9 and earlier and
is due specifically to an array indexing error in the processing of JBIG2
streams. The situation can…