Adobe Released Security Updates & Fixed 43 Vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash & More

Adobe security updates released for April with the fixes of 43 vulnerabilities that affected different Adobe products.

There are 8 different Adobe products are affected including Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Dreamweaver, Adobe XD CC, Adobe Experience Manager Forms, and Adobe Bridge CC.

In this case, Overall 21 adobe family vulnerabilities are fixed and 11 flaws marked as ‘Critical” severity and the Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.  

Out-of-Bounds Write	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-7111 CVE-2019-7118 CVE-2019-7119 CVE-2019-7120 CVE-2019-7124
Type Confusion	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-7117CVE-2019-7128
Use After Free	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-7088CVE-2019-7112
Heap Overflow	Arbitrary Code Execution	Critical	CVE-2019-7113CVE-2019-7125

Adobe fixed all the 43 vulnerabilities for the following products.

• Adobe Acrobat and Reader (APSB19-17)
• Adobe Flash Player (APSB19-19) 
• Adobe Shockwave player (APSB19-20)
• Adobe Dreamweaver (APSB19-21)
• Adobe XD (APSB19-22)
• Adobe InDesign (APSB19-23)
• Adobe InDesign (APSB19-23)
• Adobe Experience Manager Forms (APSB19-24)
• Adobe Bridge CC (APSB19-25)

At this time none of the vulnerabilities are currently being exploited in the wild.

According to Adobe. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS. These update address  critical and important vulnerabilities”

“Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.”

Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions using the instructions referenced in the bulletin.

Also, Adobe recommends users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, macOS and Linux update to Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.171 via the update mechanism Adobe Flash Player Download Center.

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