Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update

From InfoWorld: Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team.

Today's update to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat comes three weeks after the company said it had revamped its security practices, and would root out vulnerabilities in old code, speed up its patching process and release regular security updates for the often-attacked PDF applications.

At the time, Adobe announced it would piggyback its quarterly updates on Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday, but declined to set a start date. Last Thursday, however, the same day that Microsoft issued its usual advance notice of impending patches, Adobe did the same.

"This is the first quarterly security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat...and incorporates the initial output of code hardening efforts," Wendy Poland of Adobe's security team in a brief post to the group's blog Tuesday. "Today's updates also address externally reported issues, as detailed in our Security Bulletin."

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