Adobe Patches for May 2020
The Adobe updates for May are just two patches covering 36 CVEs. Two of these CVEs were reported through the ZDI program. The patch for Adobe Acrobat and Reader covers 24 Critical and Important-rated CVEs that mostly consist of Out-of-Bounds (OOB) Reads and Writes. There are also some buffer overflows, memory corruptions, stack exhaustion, and Use-After-Free (UAF) bugs fixed. The patch for the Adobe DNG Software Development Kit (SDK) fixes four Critical-rated heap overflows and eight Important-rated OOB Reads. The overflows could lead to code execution, so if you use the DNG format for your digital photography, definitely make sure you are patched. None of these bugs are listed as publicly known or under active attack at the time of release.
Microsoft Patches for May 2020
For May, Microsoft released patches for 111 CVEs covering Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based), ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Visual Studio, Microsoft Dynamics, .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Power BI. Of these 111 CVEs, 16 are rated Critical and 95 are rated Important in severity. Eleven of these CVEs were reported through the ZDI program. None of the bugs being patched are listed as being publicly known or under active attack at the time of release. That makes three months in a row that Microsoft has released patches for more than 110 CVEs. We’ll see if they maintain that pace throughout the year. Read more…