Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Flash Player Update Available

Adobe has released a critical classed update for its Flash Player. A potential vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. Released update contains a fix to this mentioned vulnerability. It fixes also a few other vulnerabilities (more details in correspondent Security Advisory).

Users with Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier (Adobe Flash Player 10.0.15.3 and earlier for Linux) are recommended to update their versions to the latest one (10.0.22.87 at the moment) by downloading it from the Player Download Center, or by using the auto-update mechanism within the product when prompted.

For users who cannot update to Flash Player 10, Adobe has developed a patched version of Flash Player 9, Flash Player 9.0.159.0, which can be downloaded from the following link.

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