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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."

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  1. I have a question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    What is the point of waiting to deploy these fixes? Do they need to age before they are palatable to the public?

    1. Re:I have a question by MichaelKristopeit132 · · Score: 0, Troll

      it obviously depends on the nature of the patch... many would not require much testing at all... sometimes only a single execution.