Adobe informed users on Tuesday that updates released for Acrobat, Reader and Flash Player patch a total of 42 vulnerabilities, including many that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
The updates for Acrobat and Reader versions 11 and 15 address a total of 29 security holes, some of which could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems. The list of flaws includes type confusion, use-after-free, heap buffer overflow and other memory corruption bugs that could result in code execution. A security bypass vulnerability has also been resolved.
