Welcome to this December Patch Monday Bulletin. This month brings updates to Acrobat/Reader, Flash, iCloud/iTunes for Windows, Chrome, and Firefox. The most important vulnerability this month is CVE-2018-15982 which affects Adobe Flash Player. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild and could result in arbitrary code execution. It may be a good time to sit down and figure out whether flash is necessary in your environment and review flash configuration settings. Follow up with Adobe Acrobat/Reader due to the extreme amount of vulnerabilities that are remediated with this update. Review the environment for the presence of Chrome or Firefox and update accordingly. Finally, apply updates to iTunes and iCloud if they are used in the environment.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of non-MS patches that affect Windows platforms in the past month.