Feedly:TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog. Adobe Flash Player Fixes 79 Bugs; Microsoft Issues 12 Patches in December Patch Tuesday

from TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog

In this month's Patch Tuesday, Adobe released updates for 79 vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, the most number of vulnerabilities patched for the said product this year. 56 of these are use-after free (UAF) vulnerabilities, which may allow attackers to remotely run arbitrary code on affected systems. Most of the other vulnerabilities relate to memory corruption and buffer overflow.