Archive for February, 2015

Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player (APSB15-04)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by | Comments (0)

A Security Bulletin (APSB15-04) has been published regarding security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address CVE-2015-0313, which is being actively exploited in the wild via drive-by-download attacks against systems running Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows 8.1 and below.

Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions using the instructions referenced in the security bulletin.

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UPDATED: Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player (APSA15-02)

Posted on February 2, 2015 by | Comments (0)

A Security Advisory (APSA15-02) has been published regarding a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-0313) in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.  We are aware of reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild via drive-by-download attacks against systems running Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows 8.1 and below.

UPDATE (February 4): users who have enabled auto-update for the Flash Player desktop runtime will be receiving version 16.0.0.305 beginning on February 4. This version includes a fix for CVE-2015-0313. Adobe expects to have an update available for manual download on February 5, and we are working with our distribution partners to make the update available in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 and 11.

UPDATE (February 5): A Security Bulletin (APSB15-04) has been published regarding security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address CVE-2015-0313.  Please refer to this post for more details. 

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