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posted by mrpg on Tuesday February 12 2019, @11:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the 42 dept.

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Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe issued patches for 43 critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader – including a fix for a zero-day flaw that researchers at 0patch temporarily fixed on Monday. That bug could enable bad actors to steal victims’ hashed password values.

Overall, Adobe patched 75 important and critical vulnerabilities across its products, including Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Coldfusion, and Creative Cloud Desktop Application. The Tuesday morning patches are part of Adobe’s regularly-scheduled security updates.

Adobe said it is not aware that any of these vulnerabilities are being actively exploited.

Adobe Acrobat and Reader by far had the most vulnerabilities (71 overall) – 43 of which were dubbed critical severity.


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:13AM (5 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:13AM (#800534) Journal

    These bastards had a PhD student arrested for showing publicly how hosed their tech was.
    The day after he gave a talk at the hacker conference, a Russian software engineer is arrested by the FBI for allegedly cracking e-book security. [cnet.com]
    I would not trust them as far as I could throw a Sony rootkit.

    The bureau acknowledged Tuesday that it had arrested security researcher Dmitry Sklyarov for what it said was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The arrest came a day after Sklyarov outlined the problems plaguing e-book formats and Adobe's PDF format at the Def Con hacking conference.

    Seriously, anyone trusting Adobe for anything is seriously compromised already. Do not trust Adobe. Adobe is the bad actor. The only corporation I hate more than Microserft is Adobe. Adobe sucks donkey balls. Adobe is worse than Flash, especially Adobe Flash Player. Adobe once raped my dog. #FreeSklyarov!!!!

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:29AM (3 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:29AM (#800555)

    Adobe sucks donkey balls. Adobe is worse than Flash, especially Adobe Flash Player. Adobe once raped my dog.

    Its funny how it appears that you think that Adobe and Flash are separate companies, in spite of you referring to flash as "Adobe Flah Player."

    As for your poor dog, it has been more than once; and how come you blame Adobe even though you are the one with all the dog scratches on your genitals the next morning?

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 13 2019, @03:30PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 13 2019, @03:30PM (#800612) Journal

      Long ago, I was a classic Mac developer and Apple fanboy. In about August 1987 I attended a MacWorld in Boston. I saw this amazing product called VideoWorks II [wikipedia.org]. With it you could create animations and color. It was amazing what could be done with it. And you have to remember this was 1987. Where a really good machine had 8 MB of memory (not GB) and maybe about 20 MHz clock speed.

      Time passes. Things move on. I'm a Linux guy. I gradually become a Web developer. Looking at lots of technologies.

      Flash. Interesting, but requires a proprietary extension in the browser. Not exactly Linux browser friendly at that point.

      I discover that Flash or Shockwave, whatever they call it at this early point, is basically the technology of VideoWorks II. Packaged as a developer side tool, and a browser extension playback. Later on Flash gains vastly greater capability and general programmability. But it started out that way. I don't know any actual details of how this came to be, by acquisition or whatever.

      I can see why someone might see Adobe and Flash as separate companies. At some point the technology, and/or company was acquired by Adobe.

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      • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 13 2019, @11:41PM (1 child)

        by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday February 13 2019, @11:41PM (#800787)

        I can see why someone might see Adobe and Flash as separate companies. At some point the technology, and/or company was acquired by Adobe.

        They were separate companies. Flash and Shockwave were previously owned by Macromedia. Macromedia was bought in its entirety by Adobe back in 2005. (based on the date of the following article.)

        Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4 Billion [nytimes.com]

        So yes, PDF Reader and flash used to be owned by separate companies, but they have been one company for nearly 14 years. And that is a very long time in tech.

        For reference, after Adobe bought Macromedia, it was another 3.5 years before the first version of the Chrome browser was released [wikipedia.org]. And that is just one ripple in the many events that have significantly changed web technologies since.

        Also, Macormedia Flash was released in 1996 [wikipedia.org], with a preceding product for only a year. Macormedia Flash was a separate entity from Adobe for only 9 years, compared to 14 years as an Adobe product. I would argue that at the point when over 60% of your entire product's lifespan is with one company, your product is a firm part of that company.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:35PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 14 2019, @03:35PM (#801015) Journal

          Thanks. You fill in some missing details. It is a long time from 1987 to 2005, and you cover some details in the in-between.

          When I was amazed with, and bought a copy (a few hundred bucks) of VideoWorks II on the spot in 1987, it was made by MacroMind. The company was MacroMind.

          So MacroMind must have become Macromedia at some point before I ever heard of ShockWave or Flash.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:14AM (#800909)