Adobe Security Advisory for February 2019 Security Updates

Overview

On February 12, local time, Adobe officially released security bulletins and advisories to announce security updates to patch multiple vulnerabilities in such products as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, ColdFusion, and Adobe Acrobat and Reader.

For details about the security bulletins and advisories, visit the following link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html

Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Flash Player on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS platforms.  Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to the disclosure of information of the current user.

Vulnerability details are as follows:

• Affected versions: V32.0.0.114 and earlier
• Unaffected versions

Reference link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb19-06.html

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application

Adobe has released a security update available for the Creative Cloud Desktop Application on Windows.  This update addresses an insecure library loading vulnerability in this installer which could lead to privilege escalation.

Vulnerability details are as follows:

• Affected versions: V4.7.0.400 and earlier
• Unaffected version: V4.8.0.410

Reference link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/creative-cloud/apsb19-11.html

ColdFusion

Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion 2018, 2016, and 11 to patch a vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Vulnerability details are as follows:

• Affected versions:

• Unaffected versions:

Reference link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb19-10.html

Adobe Acrobat and Reader

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader on Windows and macOS.

Vulnerability details are as follows:

• Affected versions:

• Unaffected versions:

Reference link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb19-07.html

 Solution

Adobe has officially released security updates to fix the preceding vulnerabilities. Users are advised to update their installation to the latest versions as soon as possible.

For vulnerability details and operations, please visit official links of each vulnerable product.

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