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Adobe To Push Emergency Fix For Flash Bug

Posted by samzenpus on from the hurry-up dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe has moved up the release date for the patch for the critical bug in Adobe Flash Player revealed last week, and now plans to have an emergency fix ready on Thursday. The company still plans to patch Reader two weeks from now. The vulnerability in Flash also exists in Reader and researchers said last week that attackers had already begun exploiting the bug in Reader by the time that Adobe acknowledged the problem and published an advisory. At the time of the initial advisory, Adobe officials said they planned to release a patch for Flash on Nov. 9 and for Reader on Nov. 15."

7 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I have a question by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would imagine that there is a certain amount of testing with any software patch thats released.

    Exactly. They'd hate to introduce more bugs, security vulnerabilities, etc into their otherwise stable and secure product.

  2. Contradiction of terms by Andy+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    "revealed last week"
    "emergency fix"
    "Thursday"

    1. Re:Contradiction of terms by boarder8925 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Adobe never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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      Keep your eyes to the sky.
    2. Re:Contradiction of terms by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Hello, 911, what's your emergency?"
      "I'm having a heart attack! Aaah, hurry!"
      "Okay, we can have someone over there by Thursday."
      "UUUGGGGYHH *thud*"

      --
      There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
  3. Re:I have a question by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed. If patches carried the risk of having the programmers executed if it didn't go well, there would be no software bugs at all.

  4. Finally Safe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let me guess. With this new fix, we will have the best, safest Flash ever.

  5. Re:I have a question by Swanktastic · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's well known that North Korea publishes the most secure Hello World program in the world.