Security Updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Security updates are now available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe recommends users of Acrobat and Adobe Reader update their product installations to versions 9.1.1, 8.1.5, or 7.1.2 using the instructions located here to protect themselves from potential vulnerabilities. Adobe expects to make available Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 updates for Macintosh before the end of June.
UPDATE! - You can chain the updates by following the instructions from my earlier post. To add the 9.1.1 patch, add a semi-colon between the patches. Your patch line should look similar to the one below.
PATCH=AcrobatUpd901_all_incr.msp;AcrobatUpd911_all_incr.msp
Note: For those of you who disabled JavaScript during this window of exposure, these updates correct the vulnerability and you can now re-enable that functionality.
Enable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat using the instructions below:
1. Launch Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
2. Select Edit>Preferences
3. Select the JavaScript Category
4. Check the ‘Enable Acrobat JavaScript’ option
5. Click OK
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Earlier post referenced for directions to add the 9.1.1 patch to your existing installer state "Note: These instructions apply to Acrobat only. The Reader update is delivered as a full installer." That does NOT seem to be the case for this 9.1.1 update. Clarification is needed as to whether the earlier post is for an earlier update and simply a model to be followed.
[Joel's Response]
Thanks for the heads-up David. You're right - clarification is needed...here goes.
For Reader, as a rule of thumb (not a promise) any single-dot release (9.1) will be a full installer and any double-dot release (9.1.1) will be just the patch.
Posted by: David Patterson | May 15, 2009 6:24 AM