Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader could lead to remote code execution

Cisco Talos has disclosed more than 30 vulnerabilities in February, including seven in Adobe Acrobat Reader, one of the most popular PDF editing and reading software currently available. 

Adversaries could exploit these vulnerabilities to trigger the reuse of a previously freed object, thus causing memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution on the targeted machine.  

Other potential code execution vulnerabilities are also present in Weston Embedded µC/HTTP-server, a web server component in Weston Embedded’s in-house operating system and an open-source …

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