Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Adobe Flash Player Update Available

Adobe have released updated versions of their Flash Player. The new version adds extra hardening against the vulnerability CVE-2014-8439 (a vulnerability in the handling of a dereferenced memory pointer that could lead to code execution) which was mitigated in the October release.

Affected versions:

- Users of Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.223 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.239

- Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.418 and earlier versions for Linux should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.424

- 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.x) will be updated via Windows Update



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

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