Adobe Acrobat Reader 0-Day Severe Vulnerability

Safety experts analysis:A very severe vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat affecting versions 8.x and 9.The malicious PDF's in the wild exploit a vulnerability in a non-JavaScript function call.Its in the wild contain JavaScript that is used to fill the heap with shellcode.Since this exploit relies on both JavaScript and non-JavaScript components there are some potential reliability issues which has led to confusion over which platforms are affected.This threat is "TROJ_PIDIEF.IN" and "TROJAN.PIDIEF.E".Adobe are expecting an update by March 11th,2009 for Adobe 9 and updates for other version (8 and 7) to follow soon after.