Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.0 through 7.0.8 that could although Adobe is not aware of any specific code exploits at this time allow an attacker who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious file must be loaded by the end user for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities. It is recommended that users update to Adobe Reader 8 or apply the workaround provided below.
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