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Microsoft, Adobe security updates coming on 'patch Tuesday'

Friday, June 5, 2009

Adobe will release its first batch of quarterly security patches on Tuesday June 9th, the same day that the monthly security update comes out from Microsoft.

Adobe said it expects to deliver critical security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7.x, 8.x and 9.x for Windows and Macintosh, with Unix updates coming "when available."

The company said it would begin issuing quarterly patches to coincide with Microsoft's "patch Tuesday" after it came under intense criticism for its perceived lack of responsiveness to flaws in Reader and Acrobat.

Flaws in the software allowed hackers to remotely execute code as happened in February via a JBIG2 image file that unleashed a Trojan horse.

In a blog post last month, Adobe's security chief Brad Arkin said the company took the criticism to heart.

"The JBIG2 issue also sparked a lot of conversation internally at Adobe from executives to testers and developers," Arkin wrote. "What started out as a routine incident response expanded to a broader effort by Adobe Reader and Acrobat engineers, culminating in permanent changes to our software security approach for those products."

Meanwhile, Microsoft will issue 10 security patches on Tuesday for flaws in Windows, Excel and Internet Explorer, six of which are rated as critical.

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins on June 10th.
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