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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