Security News > 2021 > July > Adobe Patches 11 Critical Bugs in Popular Acrobat PDF Reader

Eleven critical bugs in Adobe's popular and free PDF reader, Acrobat, open both Window and macOS users to attacks ranging from an adversary arbitrarily executing commands on a targeted system to data leakage tied to system-read and memory flaws.

The free Acrobat Reader 2020 and PDF-creation and editing software Acrobat 2020 were among the list of those programs with critical bugs patched.

In all, Adobe patched 20 Acrobat bugs, with nine rated important.

One of the more interesting critical bugs patched is a type of vulnerability called an "Uncontrolled search path element" flaw.

It's unclear how the weakness was introduced to Adobe Acrobat.

Four critical bugs in Adobe's Bridge, a free app for managing digital assets, were patched.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/adobe-patches-critical-acrobat/167743/