Software-update: Adobe Acrobat/Reader 9.3.2

Adobe heeft een nieuwe versie van Acrobat uitgebracht. Het gaat daarbij zowel om de Reader als om het programma waarmee de pdf-documenten kunnen worden gemaakt. Downloads zijn beschikbaar woor Windows, Mac OS X, Linux en Solaris en de releases kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. Versie 9.3.2 is een zogenaamde maintenance release, die geen nieuwe mogelijkheden toevoegt. Wel is er een aantal beveiligingsissues verholpen. De volledige lijst met verbeteringen is hieronder te vinden:

Resolved issues

PDF Maker

• Word document uploaded on the acrobat.com service runs into a timeout situation

Viewer

• Loading pdf multiple times in same process caused memory leak in windows browsers

Security

• Watermark visibility remains unchanged for a policy protected document (with watermark) when using it as background or foreground
• Long term validation data for the OSCP response is not being embedded in the signature at signing time which results in invalid signatures that should be valid.
• PPKlite plugin crashes when validating digital signatures

3D

• Reader in the browser crashes when viewing some PDF files
• Performance degradation experienced after setting preferences to "Render points as cross-hairs when opening a PDF file

Trust Manager

• A PDF file trusted for Javascript still shows the Yellow bar and does not execute the javascript
• When a PDF is added as a privileged location in Enhanced Security, Acrobat deletes the entry 'cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript' under Key-\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\
• Adding a privileged location host from the Options button on the JavaScript injection Yellow Message Bar populates 1/2 of the privileged location keys it should.
• bDisableTrustedSites and bDisableTrusted folders does not consistently prevent Options button from appearing on Yellow Message Bar for certain workflows.
• Reader removes the “cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript” value and places it in the “cUnsafeJavaScript” key with the same value when the same exact web site value is place in the Trusted Hosts UI for Enhanced Security