Security patches for Adobe Flash Player
Posted: February 27th, 2009 | Tags: Security holes, Vulnerabilities |Adobe Systems has released the updated version of a flash-player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Several vulnerabilities of Flash Player v.10.0.22.87, which can be used by malefactors for the purpose of control capture over the computer of a victim, are removed. They could be also used for organisations of DoS-attacks and so forth the Greatest danger are represented by the hole connected with the buffer overflow error: by means of the file generated in special way in format SWF (Shockwave Flash) cybercriminals could execute any program code with privileges of the current user on the remote computer.
Vulnerability are present at a flash-player of version 10.0.12.36 and earlier versions of the program. Adobe urgently recommends users to install the updated version of a package. For those who for any reason cannot pass from the ninth program to the tenth version, Adobe advises to instal a patch.
Let’s remind that literally some days ago it became known about existence of dangerous “holes” in packages Adobe Reader and Acrobat, patches for which do not exist yet, therefor this holes are already actively maintained by network malefactors.
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