Adobe today pushed out an updated Flash Player that patched 52 vulnerabilities, most of which led to remote code execution on compromised machines. The 52 flaws represent one of the biggest security updates in Flash this year, in what has been a busy time around the beleaguered software. Already, Adobe has had to push out emergency...

As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability. Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked. The vulnerability affects Flash Player versions 21.0.0.226 and earlier on Windows,...

Adobe rolled out security updates for three of its products on Tuesday, including 95 fixes it pushed for Acrobat, Reader, and ColdFusion. Users will have to wait until later this week, however, to patch a critical vulnerability that exists in Flash Player. It may only be a matter of time until the vulnerability is publicly...

Adobe today patched a vulnerability in the Adobe Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash library, which can be added to Flash projects to measure the usage of Flash-based content. The vulnerability is a DOM-based cross-site scripting flaw that can be abused for cookie theft, said researcher Randy Westergren Jr., who privately disclosed the issue to Adobe. Unlike...

Adobe today released a new version of Flash Player that patches 18 vulnerabilities, all of which can result in remote code execution attacks. On Tuesday, Adobe pushed out security updates for Reader, Acrobat and Digital Editions, and gave users a head’s up about an upcoming Flash update. Today’s Flash release patches a host of memory-related...

Adobe today released security updates for its PDF editing and viewing products, Acrobat and Reader, and its ereader for books called Adobe Digital Editions. And while the customary Flash update is missing from today’s monthly rollout, Adobe said a new version of the software will be available “in the coming days.” Last month, Adobe patched...

Adobe today patched 17 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader, all of which the vendor rated as critical and warn could allow an attacker to commandeer the underlying system. Adobe said desktop versions of Acrobat and Reader XI (11.0.13), for Windows and Macintosh, are affected, as are Acrobat and Reader DC (15.009.20077 and 15.006.30097). None of...