Flash player users, which is the majority of Internet users, do not come to rest in past years. There is seldom a month passing by without another Flash vulnerability. Adobe today released a security advisory warning for all Flash users that describes a critical security vulnerability in the popular software. Affected are more or less [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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New Critical 0-day Flash Vulnerability Exploited Via Excel Attachments
Adobe today has released a new security advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat. All three applications are affected by a critical 0-day vulnerability that is exploited via Excel email attachments. Vulnerable versions are Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.33 and earlier for all supported desktop operating systems, Adobe Flash Player 10.1.106.16 and earlier for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Adobe Security Bulletin Summary Feburary 2011
Adobe Software yesterday released updates for some of its popular software applications, including updates for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and the Adobe Flash Player. The updates address critical security issues in the products making them mandatory updates for all users of said products. The security update for Adobe Flash Player fixes several critical vulnerability in Flash [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Adobe Patches, And Reports New Vulnerabilities
Adobe’s Flash Player was updated yesterday fixing several security vulnerabilities in the process. The patch was initially slated for a November 9 release but released in advance yesterday. But Adobe Flash was not the only vulnerable Adobe product. Adobe has scheduled an update for their popular pdf readers Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on November [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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New 0-day Adobe Vulnerabilities
It has been a bad year for Adobe’s security team, as Adobe products where hit with many critical security vulnerabilities in that time. The latest was just announced yesterday in a security advisory over at Adobe. The critical vulnerability affects both Adobe Flash Player versions 10.1.85.3 and earlier on all supported operating systems (that’s Windows, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Adobe Reader 9.4 Download Available
Adobe has just released an update for their popular pdf reader Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, raising versions of the two programs to 9.4. Both program updates fix critical security vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier, as well as Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier. Vulnerabilities affect all supported operating systems, and users are encouraged [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Another Adobe Reader Zero-Day Vulnerability Emerges
What is it with Adobe Reader and vulnerabilities? It feels like new security vulnerabilities are found in the software at an accelerated pace this year. Adobe yesterday released a security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, to announce to the world that critical security vulnerabilities have been found – once again – in Adobe Reader [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Adobe Updates Security Advisory, Promises Patches Soon
Critical vulnerabilities that affected Adobe’s flagship products Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player were revealed in a security advisory by the Adobe Product Incident Response Team. The vulnerability affects Flash Player 10 and 9 as well as Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 which covers the majority of the install base. The vulnerabilities received a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Critical Adobe Reader And Flash Vulnerabilities Emerge
Two new vulnerabilities affecting the Adobe products Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash were reported by Secunia earlier this day. They have in common that they have been both rated as extremely critical, the highest available severity rating for vulnerabilities posted at Secunia. Highly critical is a rating for “remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to [...]