A new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 has been identified by Chia-Ching Fang and the Taiwanese Information and Communication Security Technology Service Center that allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. The attack is seeded by providing via e-mail or download a specially crafted PDF file which in current examples will then drop a malware executable as well as an unaffected pdf file.
Microsoft is recommending setting the kill bit for an ActiveX control object, MPEG2TuneRequest, to avoid an in the wild zero day exploit that allows for remote code execution when a web site containing the exploit is browsed by a user with Internet Explorer.
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