The company marks the update with the highest priority rating

Jan 15, 2014 11:54 GMT  ·  By

The latest update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat includes repairs for three security glitches that would permit crashing the application and allow a potential attacker to gain control over the affected system.

Previous versions of the applications are susceptible to security breaches by taking advantage of memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0493 and CVE-2014-0495) that could lead to code execution.

A third security glitch (CVE-2014-0496) removed from the Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11.0.06 refers to a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution as well.

The update priority rating for all three security flaws that received a fix is the highest, as their severity has been marked as critical, with potential of permitting surreptitious execution of native code.

The company has not released information about knowledge of the vulnerabilities being leveraged in the wild.

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