Three days ago, Adobe released a patch that fix eight security vulnerabilities. Six of these holes are critical. It is the third update released since the company announced that it would release a patch for Reader and Acrobat on a quarterly basis.

One of the patched vulnerabilities was publicly disclosed in mid-December. Hackers launched limited attacks and conducted campaigns at a large-scale which affected thousands of users.

The current version of Adobe Reader is now 9.3 while Adobe Acrobat is 8.2.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD