gHacks technology news » adobe shockwave http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:21:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Adobe Fixes Critical Shockwave Vulnerabilityhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/adobe-fixes-critical-shockwave-vulnerability/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/adobe-fixes-critical-shockwave-vulnerability/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:51:09 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13844 adobe shockwaveAdobe has issues a security patch for their Adobe Shockwave software program that fixes on vulnerability that has been rated critical. The vulnerability gives attackers, who can attack systems remotely, control over affected computer systems. The interesting aspect of the issued patch is that Adobe recommends to completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave 11.5.0.596 or earlier on their computer systems before installing the latest version of the software product in which the security vulnerability has been fixed.

To secure a computer system running Adobe Shockwave a user would therefor have to uninstall Adobe Shockwave, perform a system restart and install the latest version of Shockwave after the reboot.

The Security Bulletin that has been published at the Adobe website gives little information about the vulnerability other than it can be remotely exploited and that it only affects the Microsoft Windows operating system. Users are encouraged to download the latest version of Adobe Shockwave on the program’s website.

It should also be noted that this vulnerability targets only Adobe Shockwave and not Adobe Flash. Thanks goes to Dante for sending me the information per email.

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