By Ryan Naraine on May 10, 2016
A zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash Player software is being exploited to launch malware attacks, the company warned in an advisory issued today.
The vulnerability, rated critical, will not be patched until May 12th.
The company credits Genwei Jiang of FireEye, Inc. with discovering the flaw, which provides an indication that it is being used in targeted attacks.
According to Adobe, the vulnerability is present in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome OS.
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Adobe Flash Zero-Day Under Attack
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Here we go again! LOL
After todays Windows Updates IE and Edge show:
Daniel :S
After todays Windows Updates IE and Edge show:
Daniel :S
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Well, at least they have found it and we have a date for a patch...just got to hope that the miscreants are not quick on the up take re. this one.
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By Michael Mimoso May 12, 2016
As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability.
Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked.
The vulnerability affects Flash Player versions 21.0.0.226 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome OS.
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As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability.
Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked.
The vulnerability affects Flash Player versions 21.0.0.226 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Chrome OS.
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Well, that was quick and as promised...nice to see a major player doing what it says it will do...Google could learn a thing or two from Adobe in this respect. ;)
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Updated Firefox here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Be sure to uncheck any unwanted add-ons (PUA's) : https://community.webroot.com/t5/Techie-KB/How-to-Remove-Potentially-Unwanted-Applications/ta-p/40744
Be sure to uncheck any unwanted add-ons (PUA's) : https://community.webroot.com/t5/Techie-KB/How-to-Remove-Potentially-Unwanted-Applications/ta-p/40744
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Thank you for the update Daniel!:D
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Interesting via my MVP Channel: https://twitter.com/phillip_misner/status/730809742528892929
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Indeed...very, very interesting...to say the least. ;)
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
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That is interesting and good to know Daniel.
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