Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla released security vulnerabilities fixes

Aug. 10, 2017

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat, Reader, Digital Editions or Experience Manager. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system.

As part of its August Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has today released a large batch of 48 security updates for all supported versions Windows systems and other products. The latest security update addresses a range of vulnerabilities including 25 critical, 21 important and 2 moderate in severity. These vulnerabilities impact various versions of Microsoft's Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft SharePoint, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Adobe Flash Player, Windows Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server.

Mozilla has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.