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Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

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 DannyB on Wednesday February 13 2019, @03:19PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 13 2019, @03:19PM (#800609) Journal

    It was time for Adobe to DIE DIE DIE back when the Dmitry Sklyarov [wikipedia.org] incident occurred in 2001-2002. People tend to forget. But this was so unbelievably outrageous that everyone needs to remember.

    Executive Summary:
    * Adobe sells its eBook system
    * proclaims how secure it is
    * security researcher comes to US to present findings at a conference
    * exposes how naively weak Adobe's eBook security truly is
    * along with a tool that provided ample proof
    * because he is Russian, Adobe calls FBI
    * evil hackers who tell the truth must be stopped
    * he is arrested, passport taken away, kept in the US for six months away from his family and recently born son
    * Adobe continues to aggressively push this
    * because Adobe can't stand the truth

    Despicable. Adobe.

    But people forget.

    Prior to this, there was a slashdot story about an Adobe eBook, which was a children's bedtime story. It was so ridiculously locked down in terms of permissions, that the eBook would inform the user that no permission was given to read this book aloud. Great idea for a children's book. Stupid idea for any book. Why can't a book be read aloud? What kind of dystopia are we living in?

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