[PDF] Acrobat 5.1 Security problem

[James Balogh]

Short of going to 6.0, what else can be done?  I am in an Enterprise environment, with over 1k users.  Also, does this affect user of Adobe Acrobat 5.0? NGSSoftware announced it has found a critical security flaw within Adobe Reader 5.1 that could leave users open to having their computers taken over by hackers. The security firm said the flaw is a data format buffer overflow that could be used by hackers to compromise end-user systems that view specially crafted PDFs. The buffer overflow affects the XML forms data format (XFDF), which is a format for representing forms data and annotations in a PDF document.