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Adobe has patched two critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader that warrant urgent attention.

Officially, Adobe patches security vulnerabilities around the middle of each month to coordinate with Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, but recently it’s become almost routine for the company to issue out-of-band updates in between.

15.006.30523 Planned update, May 12, 2020¶. This release is a planned update for the products listed in the table below. The latest version is always available through the product’s update mechanism, from the enterprise FTP site, and for some languages, from the Reader Download Center. I'm not in a rush to change from Reader XI to Reader DC myself because I'm in no hurry to use Adobe's cloud services. Hopefully you can get Reader XI working.

APSB19-02, the first of such updates to reach customers in the new year, addresses critical flaws with a priority rating of ‘2’.

That means that the flaw is potentially serious, but Adobe hasn’t detected any real-world exploits (the latter would entail issuing an ‘emergency’ patch with a ‘1’ rating).

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The first flaw, identified as CVE-2018-16011, is described by Adobe as a use-after-free bug that could be exploited using a maliciously crafted PDF to take control of a target system with their malware of choice.

The second, CVE-2018-16018 (replacing CVE-2018-19725), is a security bypass targeting JavaScript API restrictions on Adobe Reader DC and seems to have been in the works since before Christmas.

Fixing the flaws

Affecting all versions of Window and macOS Acrobat DC/Reader 2019.010.20064 and earlier, the fix in both cases is to update to 2019.010.20069.

For the legacy Acrobat/Reader 2017 2017.011.30110 and Acrobat/Reader DC 2015 2015.006.30461, the updates take those to 2017.011.30113 and 2015.006.30464 respectively.

As critical flaws with a ‘2’ rating, there is a suggested 30-day window within which to apply the updates, but it’s worth bearing in mind that a new round of patches will likely be offered for Adobe products tomorrow as part of Patch Tuesday.

In December’s Patch Tuesday, Adobe released a not inconsiderable 87 patches, including 39 rated critical.

Only days before, Adobe issued an emergency Flash patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was being exploited, while in November Flash received a separate patch for one whose exploitation was believed to be imminent.

Learning has never been so easy!

Install / Update Adobe Reader to the latest version of the software: Adobe Reader XI 11.0.2 using the command line.

Simply follow the steps below =)

The process will be:
- Install Adobe Cusomization Wizard XI
- Customize the .msi
- Uninstall any existing Adobe Reader versions.
- Reinstall Adobe Reader 11.0.0 (silent install / supress reboot)
- Disable automatic update, delete desktop shortcut
- Apply Adobe Reader 11.0.1 update
- Apply Adobe Reader 11.0.2 update

4 Steps total

Step 1: Download Adobe Reader XI 11.0 offline installer

Go to: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/
And click on the lasest version (at the time of writing, it is 11.0.2), select language folder, and download the installer.

Step 2: Extract the AcroRead.msi on the Downloaded Installer

Open command line.
Navigate to the path where you saved the downloaded adobe installer.
Run the following command:

[INSTALLER].exe -nos_o'[DESTINATION_FOLDER]' -nos_ne

eg.
AdbeRdr11002_en_US.exe -nos_o'C:temp' -nos_ne

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After the extraction, you'll see something like the attached image.

Note: if it doesn't extract to the specified location, eg. in C:temp, try removing the 'C:temp' and run it without specifying any location. It will place the extracted files in a default folder.
Default folder is in the following:
%ProgramData%AdobeSetup (Windows Vista and above)
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%Application DataAdobeSetup (Windows XP / Windows Server 2003)

Step 3: Install Adobe Customization Wizard XI & Configure AcroRead.msi

Download and install Adobe Customization Wizard XI program.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5515

1. Load the extracted AcroRead.msi in the Adobe Customization XI program by going to File > Open package.

2. On the Personalization Options, check Suppress EULA.

Reader

3. On Installation Options, check 'Remove all versions of Reader', click on Silently (no interface) and 'Suppress reboot' radio buttons.

4. On Shortcut Options, you can remove the Start Menu shortcut and Desktop shortcut if you want by right-click > Remove

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5. On Online and Adobe online services Features option, check 'Disable product updates', and other things you want.

6. After customizing your AcroRead.msi, go to: Transform > Generate Transform, and save it as AcroRead.MST

7. Close the program without saving the changes on the .msi

Now you have a .mst file similar to the screenshot attached. We are ready to install! :)

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Step 4: Install Adobe Reader XI

open command prompt and run the following command:

1. Install the base
msiexec.exe /i 'AcroRead.msi' ALLUSERS=1 /q /norestart TRANSFORMS='AcroRead.mst'

2. Install 11.0.1 update
msiexec.exe /update 'AdbeRdrUpd11001.msp' /qb /norestart

3. Install 11.0.2 update
msiexec.exe /update 'AdbeRdrSecUpd11002.msp' /qb /norestart

Edit: For new updates 11.0.3 or 11.0.4, simply add it to a new line
e.g. msiexec.exe /update '[11.0.4].msp' /qb /norestart

You can incorporate all of these steps in a script and push either through Group policy or software such as PDQ Deploy to automate the deployment to all of your workstations.

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Hope this helps!

Published: Feb 23, 2013 · Last Updated: Oct 16, 2014

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12 Comments

  • Anaheim
    Andy.d Feb 28, 2013 at 09:40pm

    does the Install step at the end patch the .msi with the .msp's or is it installing on the local machine and updating that installation? I've been struggling to get 11 to patch, and using msiexec /a AcroRead.msi /p AdbeRdrUpd11001.msp;AdbeRdrUpd11002.msp allows you to specify your install location for 11.0.2 but after patching the directory doesn't recreate the .msi in that location, it installs the files themselves.

    Anyone else having issues with Reader XI gpo deployment? seems like 10 was smoother

    Edit: tried going at it from a different approach. /a install the original AdbeRdr11000_en_US.msi to a new folder, then /p the two updates to the same folder, then take the AcroRead.msi from the folder and use customization wizard to make .mst and set changes, then copy the AcroRead.msi, the .mst, and the other folders it created and put them on the deployment server. Unfortunately this doesn't install anything and Event Viewer doesn't list it in the Applicable Group Policy Objects.

  • Anaheim
    ceding Feb 28, 2013 at 11:00pm

    Andy,

    They install Adobe Reader XI 11.0.0 and then patch the installation. For example, in my PDQ Deploy workflow, I have three steps:

    1) msiexec.exe /i 'AcroRead.msi' ALLUSERS=1 /q /norestart TRANSFORMS='AcroRead.mst'
    2) msiexec.exe /update 'AdbeRdrUpd11001.msp' /qb /norestart
    3) msiexec.exe /update 'AdbeRdrSecUpd11002.msp' /qb /norestart

    They run one after another in a multi-step installation process.

  • Anaheim
    Andy.d Feb 28, 2013 at 11:37pm

    ceding,

    Ah I think we may be talking around the same issue. PDQ runs those 3 steps locally on the machine (thus the /i) where using GPO you have to patch the msi before it's installed locally on the user's machine. Typically we accomplish this by taking original.msi and /a it to a new aip folder, then we /a the new.msi and /p the msp's (one patch at a time) to that same aip folder. Then we use the customization wizard to generate a mst with the settings we want. Finally we copy that to the deployment server, create the gpo and add the mst modifications.

    Now our testmachine isn't installing anything though, which makes me think it's been borked somehow and needs to be re-imaged to before I started this whole process...doesn't install anything at this point.

    Edit: finally got it to work, the last thing I was doing wrong was applying both msp's at the same time. For some reason it didn't like that but now it installs. Fixed my above steps to reflect this.

  • Thai Pepper
    Tony Poupa Mar 5, 2013 at 11:58pm

    Excellent write up, thanks. I'm going to give this a go soon, so I'll let you know how it goes.

  • Sonora
    Mike McKelvey Aug 23, 2013 at 08:00pm

    Is anybody else having trouble getting Privileged Locations to deploy with the transform? I see that the registry settings are being deployed to HKLM but Adobe Reader XI doesn't seem to acknowledge them. Files from what should be trusted locations still open in Protected ViewMode.

  • Chipotle
    Quantum Physics Sep 27, 2013 at 08:33pm

    @Mike McKelvey, I haven't had that problem. Please ensure that you are installing it as administrator and see if that works.

  • Jalapeno
    karlkeppner Oct 11, 2013 at 02:42pm

    Many thanks,
    This helps ALOT when pushing through AD or in my case KACE.

  • Chipotle
    Jon Dehen May 22, 2014 at 02:42pm

    Hi, I created a script you might be interested in. It automates steps 2 and 4 and creates a fully patched AIP when provided with the current EXE program. (I hope this isn't 'spam'...just trying to be helpful!) It doesn't include automatically adding the transform file.

    http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/2613-adobe-reader-administrative-install-point-aip-creator-for-group-policy-software-installation

  • Anaheim
    Evan5329 May 23, 2014 at 02:28pm

    Question about this--Do I have to incrementally install all updates? Or can I just add the last?

  • Chipotle
    Quantum Physics Jun 13, 2014 at 06:56pm

    @Evan5329, You need to incrementally install all updates in order for this to work.

  • Poblano
    Ahren Bader-Jarvis Oct 25, 2017 at 05:23pm

    For those that find this thread later like me, I was able to locate the Adobe Reader DC customization wizard: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/WizardDC/basics.html

  • Datil
    Peter (Action1) Feb 27, 2020 at 05:58pm

    Another way to install/update Adobe Reader to the latest version is using free cloud-based tool Action1. You can configure installation process by schedule, uninstall software or execute silent installation on multiple PCs.
    https://www.action1.com/p/Free-Install-Software-Remotely-58.html

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