Adobe

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Of the 26 security holes fixed in the Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat and Reader, 16 have been assigned a “critical” severity rating (high severity based on their CVSS score), and a majority are memory-related issues that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. Four of these critical vulnerabilities — CVE-2021-44704 through CVE-2021-44707 —…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

The flaws, rated critical, expose both Windows and MacOS users to code execution attacks, Adobe said in an advisory released Tuesday. The updates, available for Photoshop 2020 and Photoshop 2021, are being pushed via the software’s automatic updating mechanism. Adobe described the vulnerabilities as memory corruption issues with 7.8 CVSS scores. The company also shipped…

Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

As part of its scheduled Patch Tuesday release, Adobe released fixes for 29 documented security vulnerabilities, some serious enough to expose users to code execution, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation attacks. The Adobe Magento patch lists 26 CVEs with severity ratings ranging from critical to important, according to an advisory from San Jose, Calif….

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

Building on previous research, white papers, and other projects from Adobe’s Security Intelligence Team, OSAS out-of-the-box allows researchers to experiment with datasets, control data processing and feature combining, and help identify a solution for detecting security threats. The new open-source project tackles the issue of data sparsity, which may appear when using machine learning (ML)…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

In the Creative Cloud desktop application, Adobe fixed three flaws rated critical, including arbitrary file overwrite and OS command injection issues that can lead to code execution, and an improper input validation issue that can be exploited for privilege escalation. In its Connect product, the company addressed one critical input validation issue that can result…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

A total of 17 vulnerabilities have been fixed with the release of Adobe Bridge 10.0.4 for Windows and macOS. The critical flaws have been described as stack-based buffer overflow, heap overflow, out-of-bounds write, use-after-free, and other memory corruption issues that can lead to arbitrary code execution. Three of the patched security holes, described as important…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Adobe Patches 85 Vulnerabilities in Acrobat Products

Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC (Continuous) 2019.008.20071, Acrobat 2017 and Reader DC 2017 (Classic 2017) 2017.011.30105, and Acrobat DC and Reader DC (Classic 2015) 2015.006.30456 patch a total of 85 flaws. The list includes 22 out-of-bounds write issues, 7 heap overflows, 7 use-after-free bugs, 3 type confusion issues, one double-free bug, 3 buffer errors,…

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

A new age of digital signatures is upon us

The increased adoption of digital signatures should not come as a surprise: many businesses are trying to digitalise their everyday processes, and digital signatures are both reliable and secure due to several features, and are increasingly easy to use. The term “digital signature” is often used interchangeably with that of “electronic signature”, but they are…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Over a Dozen Code Execution Flaws Patched in Flash Player

Adobe on Tuesday released security updates that address two dozen vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Digital Editions and the Campaigns marketing tool, but none of the flaws have been exploited in the wild. Flash Player 24.0.0.221 patches 13 critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution, including type confusion, integer overflow, use-after-free, heap buffer…