11 May 2016

This time of month is pretty intense for IT community, especially for guys who administer patches to multiple servers and workstations. In this article we will make a brief review of issued security advisories and vulnerable components for both vendors.

Microsoft has issued 14 advisories this month, covering 31 vulnerabilities in its products. Additional bulletin was issued to address 24 vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash. Information about these vulnerabilities is not revealed by Adobe yet.

The table below will cover all bulletins published by Microsoft:

Adobe made its record by patching a huge number of vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader & Acrobat. The company also published information about upcoming fix for zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player (CVE-2016-4117). The vendor will issue the patch on May 12. In total, Adobe published 2 security bulletins covering 92 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and 3 vulnerabilities in ColdFusion. Information about 24 vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft is not revealed yet. Basically Adobe patched 119 vulnerabilities in their products this month, plus one more vulnerability to be patched soon: