By Gregg Keizer

February 6, 2008 (Computerworld) Adobe Systems Inc. patched its free Reader software today, saying that it was quashing "a number of ... security vulnerabilities." But in what some saw as a change from past practice, the company did not provide any information to users on the bugs it found and fixed.

Adobe Reader 8.1.2 addresses 27 items, most of which appeared to be usability problems, with a few stability issues tossed in for good measure, said the San Jose-based company. None of the 27 fixes listed in the 8.1.2 Release Notes called out a security vulnerability.

The lack of information about the purported bugs patched in 8.1.2 surprised some security researchers. "Curiously, no further details are available about the security update, which is not the norm for Adobe," said Thomas Kristensen, the chief technology officer at Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker Secunia APS.


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