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While IT administrators around the world had their hands full planning to implement the largest-ever set of patches from Microsoft on Tuesday, another software maker quietly rolled out a massive fix of its own.

On what will go down in IT admin history as a day of headaches, Adobe Systems rolled out updates for Acrobat and Reader on Tuesday. The updates address 29 critical security vulnerabilities for the PDF applications, which are used across business and consumer PCs around the world.

Adobe issued a security advisory Thursday about vulnerabilities in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat products. The company labeled the vulnerabilities critical, reflecting the highest level of severity, and indicated that software updates will be available on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

A number of Adobe products and all platforms are involved. The update will cover Adobe Reader 9.1.3, Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6, and Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX. The updates also will cover Adobe Reader 7.1.3 and Acrobat 7.1.3 for Windows and Macintosh.

Adobe Systems on Friday issued a security update to its Flash Player that fixes at least 12 security holes. The patch plugs a zero-day vulnerability attackers have been using to break into computers via Flash.

Three of the 12 problems were caused by issues in Microsoft development code. Adobe listed 10 of the vulnerabilities as potential avenues of attack by hijackers who either take complete control of a system or execute malware on a machine without the victim's knowledge.

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Less than a week after security researchers warned of a vulnerability in two Adobe programs that could allow hackers to compromise a PC comes yet another critical exploit that could hijack your desktop.

This time, attackers have targeted Adobe's Flash animation software. According to iDefense Labs, remote exploitation of the vulnerability in the Flash player could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with full user privileges. That means anything you could do with your PC, the attacker could, too.

Adobe Systems has released a security fix to address eight major vulnerabilities in version 8.12 of its free Adobe Reader application. The flaw was first reported to Adobe five months ago.

Core Security Technologies on Tuesday issued an advisory disclosing the vulnerability, which could affect millions of individuals and businesses that use the popular PDF file-viewing software. Specifically, CoreLabs engineers discovered attackers could exploit Adobe Reader to gain access to vulnerable systems by using a specially crafted PDF file with malicious JavaScript content.