Data: CASIE
Negative Trigger
11
security
flaws
in
this
month
's
patch
update
on
the
heels
of
a
far
larger
security
round
last
month
in
which
over
a
hundred
bugs
were squashed
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
.
The
patch
release
impacts
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
Adobe
Flash
,
Acrobat
and
Reader
,
Experience
Manager
,
and
Creative
Cloud
.
Two
of
the
vulnerabilities
disclosed
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
in
the
release
are described
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
as
critical
and
affect
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
Acrobat
and
Reader
.
In
July
,
Adobe
issued
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
a
security
update
which
patched
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
a
total
of
112
vulnerabilities
.
The
majority
of
bugs
were uncovered
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
in
Adobe
Acrobat
,
but
a
critical
code
execution
flaw
was also resolved
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
in
Adobe
Flash
.
The
critical
bugs
in
this
release
impact
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
Adobe
Acrobat
2017
,
Acrobat
DC
,
and
Acrobat
Reader
DC
on
Windows
and
macOS
machines
.
The
tech
giant
says
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
that
exploitation
of
the
security
flaws
,
an
out
of
bounds
write
issue
(
CVE-2018-12808
)
and
an
untrusted
pointer
dereference
problem
(
CVE-2018-12799
)
can
lead
to
arbitrary
code
execution
.
The
vulnerabilities
resolved
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
include
five
bugs
in
Adobe
Flash
.
An
out
of
bounds
read
flaw
(
CVE-2018-12824
)
,
a
security
bypass
error
(
CVE-2018-12825
)
,
two
information
disclosure
vulnerabilities
(
CVE-2018-12826
,
CVE-2018-12827
)
,
and
a
privilege
escalation
flaw
(
CVE-2018-12828
)
have all been patched
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
.
A
reflected
cross-site
scripting
flaw
(
CVE-2018-12806
)
,
input
validation
bypass
(
CVE-2018-12807
)
,
and
cross-site
scripting
(
XSS
)
bug
(
CVE-2018-5005
)
have been patched
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
in
Adobe
Experience
Manager
versions
6.0
--
6.4
on
all
platforms
.
If
exploited
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
,
the
security
flaws
can
facilitate
sensitive
information
disclosure
and
data
modification
.
In
addition
,
a
single
bug
in
Adobe
Creative
Cloud
Desktop
affecting
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
versions
4.5.0.324
and
earlier
versions
on
Windows
systems
has been resolved
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
.
The
DLL
hijacking
vulnerability
(
CVE-2018-5003
)
can
be exploited
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
in
order
for
an
attacker
to
escalate
privileges
on
an
account
.
Adobe
recommends
that
users
update
their
software
as
quickly
as
possible
.
Researchers
from
Trend
Micro
's
Zero
Day
Initiative
,
Palo
Alto
Networks
,
Google
Project
Zero
,
TenCent
,
and
Cognizant
Technology
Solutions
,
among
others
,
were
thanked
for
reporting
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
the
bugs
.
On
Tuesday
,
Microsoft
's
latest
round
of
patches
tackled
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
a
total
of
60
vulnerabilities
,
19
of
which
were
deemed
critical
.
Two
severe
security
flaws
resolved
Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability
in
the
update
are
zero-day
vulnerabilities
which
are
being
actively
exploited
Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability
in
the
wild
.