Prenotification: Quarterly Security Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

A prenotification Security Advisory has been posted in regards to the upcoming quarterly Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates scheduled for October 5, 2010. The updates will address critical security issues in the products, including CVE-2010-2883 referenced in Security Advisory APSA10-02 and CVE-2010-2884 referenced in the Adobe Flash Player Security Bulletin APSB10-22. These security updates will be made available for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.

Note that the October 5, 2010 updates represent an accelerated release of the next quarterly security update originally scheduled for October 12, 2010. With this accelerated schedule, Adobe will not release additional updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat on October 12, 2010.

We will continue to provide updates on the upcoming release via the Security Advisory section of the Adobe website as well as the Adobe PSIRT blog.

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