[Infowarrior] - Adobe silently fixes Adobe Reader

[Richard Forno]

.....agree with Secunia -- why the need for secrecy?  Disclosure, folks!
-rf


Stealthy Adobe Reader update fixes mystery security bugs
By John Leyden → More by this author
Published Thursday 7th February 2008 11:57 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/stealth_adobe_reader_update/

Adobe has pushed out a stealthy - but important - update to its Reader
software that fixes a number of unspecified security problems.

As well as fixing various performance and stability issues, Adobe Reader
version 8.1.2 also resolves a number of mystery security bugs. Details of
the performance tweaks, at least, are detailed in Adobe's advisory here. The
update covers versions of the software on multiple platforms.

According to figures from Secunia's Personal Software Inspector tool, 61 per
cent of all private users need to apply the security update. The
Denmark-based security notification firm notes that the update is unusual,
for Adobe and the software industry at large, because it omits information
on what security issues it address.

"Curiously, no further details are available about the security update,
which is not the norm for Adobe," Secunia said. "Past Adobe security-related
releases featured information on the security problems, but Wednesday's
Adobe update did not." ®