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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

As part of its scheduled Patch Tuesday updates, Adobe documented 72 distinct security bugs and called special attention to code-execution defects in the widely deployed Adobe Acrobat and Reader software. In a critical-severity bulletin, Adobe documented at least 17 Acrobat and Reader bugs that expose unpatched Windows and macOS systems to arbitrary code execution and…

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 —…