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Adobe patched its free Reader and commercial Acrobat software this week to plug the latest in what one researcher called an u201cepidemicu201d of JavaScript vulnerabilities.

Adobe's Acrobat and Acrobat Reader packages are currently under attack from a JavaScript-based exploit, similar to one which afflicted the software back in June.

Adobe, although they have admitted to the flaw, has not given a time line for fixing the affected applications with include Acrobat (Reader as well) 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1 and earlier.

If nothing else, JavaScript should be disabled by default in Adobe Reader.” Henceforth, Sophos has recommended all users to disable JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat and Reader by default.

Adobe acknowledged that all versions of Reader and Acrobat contain at least one critical vulnerability.