Adobe releases a fix for the ColdFusion Web application development platform, but it said it hasn't set a date for a fix for the Adobe Reader critical zero-day vulnerability.
Adobe
released a patch addressing vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion Web application
development platform. However, it still has not released a fix for the critical
vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that the company promised last week.
The
vulnerability exists in ColdFusion versions 9.01, 9.0, 8.0.1 and 8.0 running on
Windows, Mac OS X and Unix, Adobe said in its
security
update released Dec. 13. The vulnerabilities could lead to a cross-site
scripting attack in ColdFusion Remote Development Services and in custom tags
used to develop dynamic forms, according to Adobe.
"Adobe
categorizes this as an important update and recommends that users apply the
latest update for their product installation," the company said in the
advisory.
The
company issued a security advisory last week warning of a critical zero-day
vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat that is actively being exploited in the
wild. The flaw is due to a corruption in the U3D memory, a technology that
Reader and Acrobat rely on to interact with 3D objects. An attacker could
create a malicious PDF file containing a 3D object to crash computer systems or
potentially take over a targeted system, according the Adobe's security
advisory.
Several
security researchers found samples of an attack email and malicious PDF files
and concluded the attackers were targeting defense contractors. The exploits were
"prevalent enough" to have Adobe break its normal cycle and promise
an out-of-band patch, Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, told
eWEEK. The patch was for Adobe Reader 9.x for Windows since Adobe
Reader X is able to block the malicious code from executing because of its
sandboxing technology.
It
would be "better" if administrators could update users to Adobe
Reader X, Kandek said, noting this is the third vulnerability disclosed this
year that Reader X successfully blocked.
Adobe
also updated AIR and Flash Player for Android on Dec. 12. Despite announcing on
Nov. 9 that the company will
cease Flash development for the Android mobile platform to focus on HTML5,
Flash Player for Android 11.1.111.5 is available on the Android Market. The
updates do not support the latest version of the operating system,
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and it was not clear when that would be
available.
"This
release includes no major features but enhancements and bug fixes related to
security, stability, performance, and device compatibility," Adobe
specified.
The
update fixes issues related to video streaming on the Samsung Galaxy S II where
audio plays without video, 1080p video for Nvidia Tegra 3-based devices and
video playback for video decoding, according to the release notes. Known issues
include Android failing to prioritize incoming calls so audio keeps playing
even after a call and failing to prevent the Enter key from working inside a
multiline text input field.
Only
two weeks earlier, Adobe patched a
vulnerability in the Flex SDK on all operating systems that would have
exposed applications to a cross-site scripting attack. The bug, if exploited,
would have allowed attackers to take over applications built using a vulnerable
version of the SDK. The Adobe Flex SDK is used to create Flash applets for Web
applications.
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