Adobe Fixes Nine Critical Vulnerabilities in Reader, Acrobat

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Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader that fix numerous vulnerabilities ranging from information disclosure to arbitrary code execution.
Adobe usually releases security updates in conjunction with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security updates, but this month nothing was released at that time.

Today, Adobe has released security updates that fix 13 vulnerabilities, with 4 rated as 'Important' as they lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation.
The other 9 are rated as 'Critical' because they could allow an attacker to create malicious PDFs or other malicious actions that could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute commands on the affected computer.

13 vulnerabilities fixed

The vulnerabilities fixed in 'Security Bulletin for Adobe Acrobat and Reader | APSB20-13' security updates are:
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