Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 full of 47 vulnerabilities behave on Adobe Acrobat together with Reader applications, together with i critical remote code execution flaw has been patched inwards Adobe Photoshop CC.
Out of 47, Adobe Acrobat together with Reader behave on alongside 24 critical vulnerabilities—categorized equally Double Free, Heap Overflow, Use-after-free, Out-of-bounds write, Type Confusion, together with Untrusted pointer dereference—which if exploited, could let arbitrary code execution inwards the context of the targeted user.
Rest of the 23 flaws, including Security Bypass, Out-of-bounds read, Memory Corruption, NTLM SSO hash theft, together with HTTP POST newline injection via XFA submission, are marked equally of import together with tin Pb to information disclosure or safety bypass.
The latest Adobe Acrobat together with Reader patches convey been given a priority rating of "1," which agency the flaws are either beingness exploited inwards the wild or to a greater extent than probable to survive exploited inwards the wild. So, users are highly recommended to update their software equally presently equally possible.
The flaws convey been addressed inwards Acrobat DC together with Acrobat Reader DC version 2018.011.20040, Acrobat 2017 together with Acrobat Reader DC 2017 version 2017.011.30080, equally good equally Acrobat Reader DC (Classic 2015) together with Acrobat DC (Classic 2015) version 2015.006.30418.
Security Patch for Adobe Photoshop CC
Adobe has too released safety patches for the Windows together with macOS versions of Photoshop CC to address a critical vulnerability, categorized equally "out-of-bounds write" issue, which tin survive exploited to execute arbitrary code inwards the context of the electrical flow user.
The vulnerability (CVE-2018-4946) impacts Photoshop CC 2018 version 19.1.3 together with before 19.x versions, equally good equally Photoshop CC 2017 version 18.1.3 together with before 18.x versions.
The fellowship credited researcher Giwan Go of Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative for reporting the flaw, which has been addressed alongside the release of Photoshop CC 2018 version 19.1.4 together with Photoshop CC 2017 version 18.1.4.
This update has been given a priority rating of "3," which agency the attackers convey non targeted the vulnerability.
Adobe recommends halt users together with administrators to install the latest safety updates equally presently equally possible.
