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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. Shocking by sunderland56 · · Score: 5, Funny

    A security flaw in Flash? Really? How surprising.

    1. Re:Shocking by tbuddy · · Score: 4, Informative

      You really can't compare it to other plugins. It's such a far leader in being the worst that it is like comparing stepping on an ant to the holocaust.

      I don't think Adobe could really just decide not to fix this and ignore the researchers who brought it up. Hardly something to praise.

  2. 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.

  3. Re:Not much longer? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    A lot of Youtube content is not available in HTML5 yet. Plus, all the famous Zynga games use Flash.

    Yet more arguments against having Flash, then.

  4. Re:Not much longer? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do we necessarily need flash right now?

    Because he'll save every one of us!