Users urged to update Photoshop CS4 as vulnerabilities found

by Graham Cluley on June 1, 2010 | Comments Off

Filed Under: Vulnerability

Photoshop patch
Think that if you keep on-top of your operating system security updates you're doing a good enough job? Feeling smug that you've kept your copy of Adobe Flash and your PDF reader up-to-date? Well, think again. Because that might not be enough.

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe in versions of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Windows and Macintosh that could allow a hackers to take control of affected computers.

According to a security advisory issued by Adobe, users of Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.1 are advised to update their software, to avoid the vulnerability which could allow a booby-trapped .ASL, .ABR, or .GRD file to hand control over to a remote hacker.

Users of Photoshop CS5 are not impacted by the vulnerability.

So, don't forget, there is lots of software on your computer which might be in need of a security update, not just the usual suspects.

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Graham Cluley is senior technology consultant at Sophos. The readers of Computer Weekly voted him security blogger of the year in 2009 and 2010, and he pipped Stephen Fry to the title of "Twitter user of the year" too. Which was nice. He was also named "Best Security Blogger" by the readers of SC Magazine in 2011. You can subscribe to Graham's updates on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and circle him on Google Plus for regular updates.