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Adobe Warns of Flash, PDF Zero-Day Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on from the who-even-uses-that-stuff-anyway dept.

InfosecWarrior writes "Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products. The vulnerability, described as critical, affects Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix operating systems."

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  1. Good thing ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... my iPad isn't affected !

    1. Re:Good thing ... by AnonymousClown · · Score: 5, Funny

      As long as the other platforms use Flash, you're just kinda left out in the cold.

      Pfft. There's plenty of porn on MP3 and WMV.

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    2. Re:Good thing ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Pfft. There's plenty of porn on MP3 and WMV.

      For the love of gawd folks, please provide citations.

  2. Flash for the iPhone WHEN??? by swb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Figure it out, Steve. Every other platform is getting Flash, I want the same opportunity for malware exploits that other mobile platforms will be getting.

    1. Re:Flash for the iPhone WHEN??? by davester666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Steve Nash? I suppose, since the Suns are out of the playoffs and he's got a bit of free time...

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    2. Re:Flash for the iPhone WHEN??? by hedwards · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, it's Steve Wonder, he's kind of pissed about being left out of this whole Flash thing.

  3. Saint Steve was right! by lostsoulz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sent from my iPhone.