Security Alert (A20-02-04): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat


 

Published on: 12 February 2020

  
  

Description:

Security updates are released for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat to address multiple vulnerabilities. To exploit the vulnerabilities, a remote attacker would entice a targeted user to open a specially crafted PDF file, web page, Flash file, or document with embedded malicious Flash content.

Please note that Adobe announced that the support for Adobe Flash will be ceased at the end of 2020 and no security updates will be provided after that. Users should arrange migrating to other supported technology.

 

Affected Systems:

  • Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows and macOS 32.0.0.321 and earlier versions
  • Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Linux 32.0.0.314 and earlier versions
  • Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome for Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS 32.0.0.321 and earlier versions
  • Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 and 8.1 32.0.0.255 and earlier versions
  • Acrobat DC for Windows and macOS Continuous 2019.021.20061 and earlier versions
  • Acrobat Reader DC for Windows and macOS Continuous 2019.021.20061 and earlier versions
  • Acrobat 2017 for Windows Classic 2017 2017.011.30156 and earlier version
  • Acrobat Reader 2017 for macOS Classic 2017 2017.011.30156 and earlier version
  • Acrobat 2015 for Windows and macOS Classic 2015 2015.006.30508 and earlier versions
  • Acrobat Reader 2015 for Windows and macOS Classic 2015 2015.006.30508 and earlier versions

 

Impact:

Depending on the vulnerability exploited, a successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation or information disclosure on an affected system.

 

Recommendation:

Users of affected systems should update the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader/Acrobat to the following versions to address the issues.  The updates can be obtained by using the auto-update mechanism or by downloading at the following URLs:

  • Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, macOS and Linux 32.0.0.330
    https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
    https://www.adobe.com/products/players/flash-player-distribution.html

  • Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS 32.0.0.330
    https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/

  • Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 and 8.1 32.0.0.330
    https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/sec

  • Acrobat DC for Windows and macOS Continuous 2020.006.20034
  • Acrobat Reader DC for Windows and macOS Continuous 2020.006.20034
  • Acrobat 2017 for Windows and macOS Classic 20172017.011.30158
  • Acrobat Reader 2017 for Windows and macOS Classic 2017 2017.011.30158
  • Acrobat 2015 for Windows and macOS Classic 2015 2015.006.30510
  • Acrobat Reader 2015 for Windows and macOS Classic 2015 2015.006.30510
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows
    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Mac

If you have multiple browsers, you are required to perform the Adobe Flash Player update for each browser. The Flash Player version can be checked at:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

 

More Information:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb20-05.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb20-06.html
https://www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/alert/20021202
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/02/11/adobe-releases-security-updates-multiple-products
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3742 (to CVE-2020-3757)
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3762
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3763

 



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