Adobe Acrobat & Reader Security Updates - Jan 10, 2017

  • 10 January 2017
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Adobe Security Bulletin

 Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Acrobat and ReaderRelease date: January 5, 2017Vulnerability identifier: APSB17-01
Priority: 2
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
CVE-2016-6937CVE-2016-6937

Summary


Adobe is planning to release security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and Macintosh on Tuesday, January 10, 2017.
Users may monitor the latest information on the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog at https://blogs.adobe.com/psirt.
(Note: This Security Advisory will be replaced with the Security Bulletin upon release of the update.)
 


 
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-01.html
 
Warning: Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs it’s extension in Chrome

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Thanks Daniel!:D
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 2015.023.20053
Other Languages
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320053/
English (US)
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320053/AcroRdrDC1502320053_en_US.exe
 
Update
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/AcrobatDC/1502320053/AcrobatDCUpd1502320053.msp
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320053/AcroRdrDCUpd1502320053_MUI.msp
 
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Thank you Daniel and Petr.
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Ah yes Thank you Daniel and Petr! 🙂
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Thanks Petr for the links!
 
Daniel 😉
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Always happy to see these security updates for these! I just got that update, for some reason it puts an "adobe reader" extension in chrome automatically after install, is there a reason for this?  I checked it in the web store and it seems pretty useless esp since chrome already has a pdf viewer.
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Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs it’s extension in Chrome
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, when you download and install the program online, Adobe Acrobat extension will be installed in Chrome silently (this has not happened before with previous versions), the browser shows notification about the same and offers options within the notification to disable or remove the extension.
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@ wrote:
Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs it’s extension in Chrome
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, when you download and install the program online, Adobe Acrobat extension will be installed in Chrome silently (this has not happened before with previous versions), the browser shows notification about the same and offers options within the notification to disable or remove the extension.
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Yes I seen that from Chrome!
 
Daniel
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@ wrote:
@ wrote:
Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs it’s extension in Chrome
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, when you download and install the program online, Adobe Acrobat extension will be installed in Chrome silently (this has not happened before with previous versions), the browser shows notification about the same and offers options within the notification to disable or remove the extension.
Full Article
Yes I seen that from Chrome!
 
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Add to first post a notice:
Latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC silently installs it’s extension in Chrome
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More info: Adobe: Adobe Acrobat Force-Installed Vulnerable Chrome Extension
 
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1088
 
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/821801218410500100
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I removed it after install...isn't that a good enough fix for the issue ?
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15.023.20056 
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320056/AcroRdrDCUpd1502320056.msp
 
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320056/AcroRdrDCUpd1502320056.msp

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/1502320056/AcroRdrDCUpd1502320056_MUI.msp
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Thank you kindly Petr! 🙂

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