As part of Unit 42’s ongoing threat research, we can now disclose that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered seven vulnerabilities addressed by the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) as part of their November 2017 security update release.
CVE | Vulnerability Name | Affected Products | Maximum Severity Rating | Impact | Researcher(s) |
CVE-2017-16388 | Use after free | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16389 | Use after free | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16390 | Use after free | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16393 | Use after free | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16398 | Use after free | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16414 | Out-of-bounds read | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
CVE-2017-16420 | Out-of-bounds read | Adobe Acrobat | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Gal De Leon |
Palo Alto Networks customers who deploy our Next-Generation Security Platform are protected from zero-day vulnerabilities such as these. Weaponized exploits for these vulnerabilities are prevented by Traps multi-layered exploit prevention capabilities. Threat prevention capabilities such as application control, IPS, and WildFire provide our customers with comprehensive protection and automatic updates against previously unknown threats.
Palo Alto Networks is a regular contributor to vulnerability research in Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google Android and other ecosystems. By proactively identifying these vulnerabilities, developing protections for our customers, and sharing the information with the security community, we are removing weapons used by attackers to threaten users, and compromise enterprise, government, and service provider networks.