Adobe on a rush patch!

     Adobe announced today that they are to release an emergency patch on the week of August 16-20 in accordance with a zero-day PDF vulnerability.

     Charlie Miller, an analyst from Independent Security Evaluation was the one who disclosed the bug using the open-source toolkit called BitBlaze that is said to accelerate vulnerability detection at about 10 folds. According to him, the bug is related to Adobe reader and acrobat's font parsing, that which successful exploitation can lead to arbitrary code execution.

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http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/adobe-confirms-pdf-zero-day-plans-rush-patch-006