Adobe Patches Nine Vulnerabilities In Flash

jones_supa writes Adobe has patched nine vulnerabilities in Flash Player — four of which are considered "critical" — in order to protect against malicious attackers who could exploit the bugs to take control of an affected system. Adobe acknowledged security researchers from Google, McAfee, HP, and Verisign. Flash's security bulletin contains more information on the vulnerabilities. The issues are fixed in mainline Flash Player 16.0.0.257 (incl. Google Chrome Linux version), extended support release 13.0.0.260, and Linux standalone plugin 11.2.202.429.

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Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Youporn.

Re:Get rid of flash on slashdot, firefox

[cheekyboy]

please mark flash as spyware, please kill flash!!!!

Any business that still wants programmers to make apps in flash are stupid, HULU, please recode your apps.

Besides Flash/Flex, AS, just purely suck as a language, utter putrid crap.

Please make all firewalls block flash.

Make firefox not even accept flash plugins, ban it , black list it.

Re:Get rid of flash on slashdot, firefox

[l0ungeb0y]

Any business that still wants programmers to make apps in flash are stupid Name one other way to transmit a live video & audio stream from the browser that works across all major platforms that doesn't require a download and install.

Besides Flash/Flex, AS, just purely suck as a language, utter putrid crap.

AS3 is essentially Java with most of the same features as most other strongly typed OO languages.

Please make all firewalls block flash. Make firefox not even accept flash plugins, ban it , black list it.

Yes, let's kill off browser-based internet video chat for the next few years and go with vendor specific implementations from Google and Apple! No one should be able to create a video app until Google lets them! Flash needs to die, but the fact is HTML5 has yet to provide a means to provide device access and a streaming AV codec. Sure, Opus is great, but not the standard and will likely never be adopted by Apple and WebRTC is great, but not the standard and has issues with implementation requirements (ICE servers, Turn/Stun).

Are browsers so much better?

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Do you realise that many of the criticisms you're directing toward Flash -- about rapid updates, numerous security fixes including some that were found by others, auto-updating, and so on -- could also be directly aimed at Chrome?

Chrome is an application that actively circumvents the main Windows security model so that it can update executable code on the user's machine without the administrative privileges usually required to install and modify applications. The day someone breaks into Google's update mechanism for even a short time, whether technically or from within the organisation, the damage will be astronomical.

We could discuss related issues with Microsoft's recommended security models and how much of that update mechanism is actually suggested by Microsoft itself rather than Google, but the facts of what Chrome is doing and the potential danger associated with it are still the same regardless of whose idea it was.

Re:Are browsers so much better?

[e70838]

Chrome is a proof that the main Windows security model does not work.