It is urgent to get close serious security holes.
Adobe is in the morning with a security update to its Acrobat and Reader products. This is an extraordinary release that removes a very serious vulnerability.
Usually comes with Adobe quarterly security updates to the products, but now the company believes that it can not wait until October to remove this vulnerability.
The vulnerability in question was presented by celebrity hacker Charlie Miller at the Black Hat conference held in Las Vegas in late July. The vulnerability is caused an overflow in the handling of TrueType fonts. It can be exploited by malicious people to compromise the system.
Probably the security update also include security fixes, including an updated flash component used by Adobe Reader.