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Adobe patches critical Flash hole
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Fri Jul 31 08:23:22 2009
Adobe patches critical Flash hole
by Stephen Shankland
July 30, 2009
www.cnet.com
Adobe has released a patch for a critical Flash Player problem that
could let attackers take over people's computers through content viewed
in a browser.
The vulnerability affected a file that shipped with Flash Player 9.x and
10.x for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and with Adobe Reader and Adobe
Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix. Adobe said Thursday it
fixed the problem in a security advisory, and Adobe's Matt Rozen posted
a note on Twitter that directed people to download the patched version
from Adobe's Flash download site.
This was no abstract, theoretical vulnerability, either.
"There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited
in the wild via limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader v9 on
Windows," Adobe said in an earlier advisory about the problem.
Flash is very widely used in browsers to power features such as
interactive stock charts and YouTube video streaming.
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