Adobe Confirms Flash Bug, To Release Fix Next Week

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Submission + - Adobe Confirms Flash Bug, To Release Fix Next Week (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by

iamrmani

on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @07:45AM

iamrmani writes: "Adobe is planning to release the fix for a "critical" vulnerability that affected certain versions of its flash player during the week of March 21, 2011.

Adobe rated the bug as "critical," which, if exploited would allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware. In other words, the bug could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122830/20110315/adobe-flash-flash-player-bug-zero-day-bug-patch-vulnerability-excel-authplay-microsoft-adobe-reader.htm#ixzz1GfTnuinb"

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