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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. Re:Zero-day? by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 5, Informative

    Buzzword or not, "zero day" means a vulnerability that is already being exploited by the time it's published. If vulnerability is published but no exploit exists -> no zero day.

    Regardless of what you think of reasons for using that "zero day" label, this is very relevant to end-users: zero day -> you're at risk, NOW. No zero day -> you're probably safe (for the time being, that is).