Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These flaws are due to memory corruption errors in the AcroPDF ActiveX control (AcroPDF.dll) that does not properly handle malformed arguments passed to the "setPageMode()", "setLayoutMode()", "setNamedDest()", and "LoadFile()" methods, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page with Internet Explorer [...]
Solution
Upgrade to Adobe Reader 8 :
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by FrSIRT
ChangeLog
2006-11-28 : Initial release
2006-12-06 : Updated Solution
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