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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:20AM
del C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader\acroread.exe
After all, no self respecting linux/unix person still uses Adobe Products. While the original post would likely work on Mac, many of those users are even less likely to know even how to even get a command prompt compared the windows crowd.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P