Adobe said it would offer a crisis patch this week on Aug 16 to repair a critical bug in its Reader and Acrobat application. The error was reveal by researcher Charlie Miller at most recent Black Hat security discussion when he confirmed how the open source Bit Blaze toolkit can be used to increase bug track efficiency.

Miller, a market analyst with Baltimore based sovereign Security Evaluators, is recognized for finding vulnerabilities in Adobe's admired PDF viewer, Miller showed how few tools could remove bugs from this PDF reader, Microsoft Office, Apple's Preview and other application. According to a source Miller said following the Black Hat discussion, the bug is in PDF reader and Acrobat's font parsing.

"This can be oppressed to damage memory through a PDF document having a designed TrueType font," said Danish exposure tracker Secunia in a review published yesterday. "Flourishing utilization may permit execution of random code."