Sure is quiet from Adobe. No security fixes this month? Great job. Oh no, wait, what's that stampede sound...

Sure is quiet from Adobe. No security fixes this month? Great job. Oh no, wait, what's that stampede sound...

If you thought Reader, Acrobat, Experience Manager were skipping October's Patch Tuesday, think again


Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it's roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.


The bulk of the bug fixes are for Acrobat and Reader, where a total of 67 CVE-listed flaws were patched today. Successful exploitation, by tricking someone into opening a booby-trapped document, will lead to arbitrary code execution with the logged-in user's rights. Adobe says it has not yet received reports of attacks in the wild for any of these bugs.


While most of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain some type of remote code execution, there are a number ..

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