Adobe Releases Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC and Digital Edition

Mar 12, 2019

Adobe users would feel lighter this month, as Adobe has
released patches for just two security vulnerability in its March
Security Update.

The company today released its monthly security updates to
address two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities—one
in Adobe Photoshop CC and another in Adobe Digital Editions.

Upon successful exploitation, both critical vulnerabilities
could allow an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution in the
context of the current user and take control of an affected
system.

However, the good news is that the company found no evidence of any
exploits in the wild for these security issues, Adobe said.

The vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop
CC ^[1], discovered by Trend
Micro Zero Day Initiative and assigned CVE-2019-7094, is a heap
corruption issue which affects Photoshop CC 19.1.7 and earlier 19.x
versions as well as Photoshop CC 20.0.2 and earlier 20.x versions
for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS operating systems.

Users are recommended to update their software to Adobe
Photoshop CC version 19.1.8 and Photoshop CC version 20.0.4 for
Windows and macOS.

The other critical vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-7095,
resides in the company’s ebook reader software program, Adobe Digital
Edition ^[2], is a heap overflow flaw
that affects versions 4.5.10.185749 and below for Microsoft Windows
operating system.

Users are advised to update their software to Adobe Digital
Edition version 4.5.10.186048.

Both updates are given a priority rating of 3, which means the
vulnerabilities addressed in the updates are unlikely to be
exploited in attacks, according to Adobe’s update notes.

Earlier this month, Adobe also rolled out an emergency patch
update for a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability
(CVE-2019-7816) in its ColdFusion ^[3]
web application development platform that’s actively being
exploited in the wild.

Therefore, users of affected Adobe software for Windows and
macOS systems are urged to update their software packages to the
latest versions as soon as possible.

Besides releasing security updates, Adobe also announced ^[4]
the long-expected shut down of its Shockwave player for Windows,
for which the company will end support on 9 April. The Shockwave
player for Apple macOS was discontinued on March 1, 2017.

References

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Adobe Photoshop CC
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Adobe Digital Edition
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ColdFusion
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announced
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