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Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

posted by mrpg on Tuesday February 12 2019, @11:45PM   Printer-friendly
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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 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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