Friday, April 11, 2014

Adobe Flash Player And Adobe AIR Updates Available

Adobe have released updated versions of their Flash Player and AIR. The new versions fix critical vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Affected versions:

- Users of Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.77 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.182

- Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.346 and earlier versions for Linux should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.350

- For users of Flash Player 11.7.700.272 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, who cannot update to Flash Player 13.0.0.182, Adobe has made available the update Flash Player 11.7.700.275, which can be downloaded here. Beginning May 13, 2014, Adobe Flash Player 13 for Mac and Windows will replace version 11.7 as the extended support version. Adobe recommends users upgrade to version 13 to continue to receive security updates. See this blog post for further details.

- Flash Player integrated with Google Chrome will be updated by Google via Chrome update

- Flash Player integrated with Internet Explorer 10 and 11 (on Windows 8.0 and Windows 8.1) will be updated via Windows Update

- Users of Adobe AIR 4.0.0.1628 and earlier versions for Android should update to Adobe AIR 13.0.0.83.

- Users of the Adobe AIR 4.0.0.1628 SDK and earlier versions should update to the Adobe AIR 13.0.0.83 SDK.

- Users of the Adobe AIR 4.0.0.1628 SDK & Compiler and earlier versions should update to the Adobe AIR 13.0.0.83 SDK & Compiler.


More information can be read from Adobe's security bulletin.

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