Adobe Security Bulletin

Release date: December 13, 2016

Vulnerability identifier: APSB16-38

Priority: 3

CVE number: CVE-2016-7866

Platform: Windows and Macintosh

Summary

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Animate for Windows and Macintosh. This update resolves a critical memory corruption vulnerability.

Affected versions

Solution

Adobe categorizes this update with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installation to the newest version:

For managed environments, IT administrators can use the Creative Cloud Packager to create deployment packages. Refer to this help page for more information.

Vulnerability Details

This update resolves a critical memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2016-7866).

Acknowledgments

Adobe would like to thank John Page (hyp3rlinx) for reporting this issue (CVE-2016-7866) and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers.