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The easiest thing is to not use XFDF.
You might also have a closer look at the description by NGSSoftware, and make your own assessment.
It seems to me that it is only Reader 5.1 which is affected (which I consider to be quite a bit of a shame, as it is the only Reader version beyond 6 which can deal with extended rights).
Hope, this can help.
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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.
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