Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft
Summary: Adobe released updates fixing dozens of vulnerabilities in Acrobat, Reader and Flash Player, while Microsoft issued patches for 48 security holes in Windows and other products, more than two dozen of them rated critical and allowing remote control of a vulnerable PC. Qualys recommended prioritizing a Windows Search service flaw, the third recent Patch Tuesday to include one, and noted many of the month's vulnerabilities involve the Windows Scripting Engine; Microsoft said none were being actively exploited, though Bleeping Computer noted three were publicly detailed before release, and the SMBLoris flaw was not addressed.
Why it matters: More than two dozen critical flaws in this batch can hand an attacker complete remote control of a PC with little or no user action, and three of the bugs were already public before the patches shipped.
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