Patent 9064134 was granted and assigned to Adobe Inc. on June, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for mitigating software vulnerabilities is disclosed. In some embodiments, information associated with software application installation is processed. The information comprises mappings between each component and a currently installed component version. In response to information identifying at least one compromised component version for at least one software application, an alternate component version for each compromised component version is selected and used to install the at least one software application.