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Adobe released security patches for vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions applications. If exploited, the flaws could enable attackers to view sensitive data, gain escalated privileges, and launch denial-of-service attacks. Each of the bugs were rated important-severity, based on CVSS rankings, marking an extremely low-volume month for Adobe bug fixes.
Overall Adobe patched flaws tied to five CVEs as part of its regularly scheduled security updates, Tuesday. That number pales in comparison to March, where Adobe patched flaws in an out-of-band update tied to 41 CVEs across its products, 29 of which were critical in severity. In February Adobe patched flaws tied to 42 CVEs in its regularly scheduled updates, 35 of which were critical in severity.
"After several months of heavy and highly critical patches, Adobe is giving us a break of sorts," said Jay Goodman, strategic product marketing manager, Automox, in a statement. "Although the CVEs are only marked as important, it is still a good cyber hygiene practice to get your applications patched to reduce your risk exposure."
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(Score: 4, Informative) by gtomorrow on Wednesday April 15 2020, @11:09AM (3 children)
[nine-year-old]Adobe sucks!!![/nine-year-old]
Photoshop: what does it do that you can't do in GIMP 2.8.18? "Seriously," asked the 30-years-in-the-business graphic pro. Be prepared: GIMP has finally evolved. Otherwise there's Affinity Photo.
Premiere: Apple dropped the ball, hard. DaVinci Resolve? Look out for Shotcut [shotcut.org].
Acrobat: pfffffft. You shouldn't be editing PDF anyway as it's an output format.
Anything else: who cares?
The only three valid apps in the Adobe Stranglehold these days are After Effects, Illustrator and InDesign. Although you can create stunning motion graphics with Blender [blender.org] it's not as streamlined as AE for that type of work. As for the other two, I can't honestly recommend any other applications, FOSS or otherwise, and sleep soundly. Illustrator: Affinity's vector drawing app possibly? InDesign: nothing comes close...a shame, really, being how page layout is almost as old as GUI computing.
Adobe sucks!
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Wednesday April 15 2020, @11:53AM (1 child)
Does Gimp do 16bit per channel yet? I stopped using it when Krita became mostly usable.
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:20PM
https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-support-hdr-imaging-and-processing-with-16bit-per-color-channel-precision [gimp.org]
Krita, while similar, is a different animal. Of course the Venn diagram has some overlap between the two.
An aside: just out of curiosity, crafoo, what do you do working in 16-bit, if you don't mind me asking? Not questioning your need for it, heaven forbid. I use it too. Just to stick my nose in your business!
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:22PM
CORRECTION: I meant GIMP 2.10.18, not 2.8.18.