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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player Zero Day Vulnerability
Adobe has issued a security advisory that describes a critical vulnerability in the current versions of Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player. The vulnerability “could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system”. Adobe’s Flash Player seems to be affected completely while the file authplay.dll is the reason [...]