Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 5, 2014 @03:10AM 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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Shocking by sunderland56 · 2014-02-05 03:12 · Score: 5, Funny

A security flaw in Flash? Really? How surprising.
Re:Not much longer? by Chris+Mattern · 2014-02-05 03:30 · 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.
Re:Not much longer? by Chris+Mattern · 2014-02-05 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Why do we necessarily need flash right now?
Because he'll save every one of us!