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Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild

Posted by Unknown on from the malware-disguised-as-boring-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux, and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker gaining remote control of the victims' systems. The flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, but apart from crediting its discovery to researchers Alexander Polyakov and Anton Ivanov of Kaspersky Labs, no details about the ongoing attack has been shared." They even updated the explicitly unsupported NPAPI GNU/Linux version.

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  1. Re:For crying out loud ... by Anrego · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Agree.

    I'm a long time apple hater, but when I read that letter regarding flash, I was nodding the whole time.

    Flash is a pile of junk, and if they are going to go all walled garden, flash seems a great thing to keep out of said garden.