Adobe responds to being blasted in the media about not patching vulnerability

Published 06 January 07 10:10 AM | rodtrent

The media comment:

“Adobe attempted to get customers to upgrade to Reader 8 to fix a new, critical vulnerability instead of putting resources behind developing a patch. Some users can't or won't upgrade to the new version, however, so Adobe will issue the patches for those users next week.”

Adobe’s response:

“Actually, security updaters for older versions of Adobe Reader (for those running old OS, or on intranets where individuals cannot upgrade versions) were already far along in development. The commercial press coverage arrived before the patches themselves were published, but after word of these patches was published:
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/ (see Leonard Rosenthol comment)

The Adobe Security Advisory on the subject advises that those additional old-version updaters are expected online next week:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-01.html

(I'd recommend using the current version if your situation doesn't prohibit doing so... faster, more abilities, more fun to use too.)

jd/adobe”

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