ComputerWorld posted a story that Adobe plans to release a patch for an older version of the Reader PDF viewer to stymie attacks like those aimed at major defense contractors earlier this month.
Nine days ago, the company confirmed a critical bug in Reader and promised to fix the flaw in Reader and Acrobat 9.x this week.Adobe promises Reader zero-day patch on Friday
The exploits uncovered by security researchers were aimed specifically at Reader 9.x using malformed PDF documents attached to bogus emails.
A day after Adobe acknowledged the vulnerability, researchers at Symantec confirmed that attacks had targeted defense contractors, as well as individuals working in the telecommunications, manufacturing, computer hardware and chemical sectors. The attacks spiked Dec. 1, Symantec said.
