Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader - Help Net Security

Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader - Help Net Security

If you thought that Adobe skipped this month’s Patch Tuesday because there were no immediate vulnerabilities to fix, you were wrong: a week later the company dropped security updates for several of its products, including Acrobat and Reader and the Download Manager.



All in all, 82 security holes – most of which are critical – have been plugged. The good news is that none are under active exploitation.


The updates


The update for Adobe Acrobat and Reader – the most popular PDF reader on the market, which also integrates into web browsers as a plugin – is arguably the most important one. It fixes a whooping 45 critical code execution flaws and 21 less critical information disclosure vulnerabilities.


The flaws can be triggered by opening ..

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