Bharat Bhise On Adobe’s Fix Of Serious Flaws In Adobe’s ColdFusion, After Effects and Digital Editions
Bharat Bhise HNA reports that Adobe has issued security patches for flaws in its Digital Edition, After Effects, and ColdFusion applications. If attacked, the vulnerabilities could allow black hat hackers to obtain confidential data, launch denial-of-service attacks, and gain escalated privileges. Each bug was rated as important in severity based upon the Common Vulnerability Scoring System. It marks a tremendously low-volume period for Adobe flaw fixes. In all, Adobe patched vulnerabilities connected to five CVEs in its scheduled Tuesday security updates. That number is insignificant compared to March when Adobe fixed bugs in an out-of-band patch related to 41 CVEs throughout its products. Bharat Bhise HNA notes that 29 of those were rated critical in severity. In February, Adobe patched updates connected to 42 CVEs wherein 35 bugs were rated critical. Good cyber hygiene Adobe seems to be given a break after many months of highly critical and heavy patches, remarks Jay Goodman, a ...