Software Patches for Adobe and Mozilla Products

Adobe

Adobe has issued security updates to address critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion. The updates for Reader and Acrobat address a total of 27 vulnerabilities, 24 of which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code (malware). The updates for Flash address 13 vulnerabilities, and a hotfix for ColdFusion addresses two flaws.

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Mozilla

Mozilla has released Firefox 21, which addresses 13 security issues in the previous version of the browser. Firefox 21 also introduces a feature called “Health Report,” which lets users see information about the browser’s performance, including start-up times, total running time, and crashes, as well as the number of plug-ins, add-ons, and bookmarks. Mozilla has also released Firefox 21 for Android.

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