Unit 42 Vulnerability Research Team Discovers 23 New Vulnerabilities February 2019 Disclosures – Adobe and Microsoft
Summary: Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers discovered 23 new vulnerabilities addressed in Adobe's February 2019 APSB19-07 security update and 2 vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft's MSRC in its February 2019 release. Severity ratings ranged from Important to Critical, covering flaw types including use after free, out-of-bounds read and write, untrusted pointer dereference, and improper handling of objects in memory, with several rated Critical for arbitrary code execution.
Bottom line: The bulk of the 23 Adobe flaws are Critical-rated arbitrary code execution issues, the class of bug attackers weaponize into exploits, and Unit 42 notes it has contributed more than 200 critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and Google Android.
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- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2019-0675CVE-2019-7025CVE-2019-7026CVE-2019-7027CVE-2019-7028CVE-2019-7046CVE-2019-7050CVE-2019-7051CVE-2019-7052CVE-2019-7053CVE-2019-7054CVE-2019-7055CVE-2019-7056CVE-2019-7057CVE-2019-7058CVE-2019-7059CVE-2019-7060CVE-2019-7065CVE-2019-7066CVE-2019-7068CVE-2019-7082CVE-2019-7083CVE-2026-109618CVE-2026-109619CVE-2026-88771CVE-2026-88772
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