Adobe Systems has released a patch today for all platforms to plug over 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical one that hackers were actively exploiting to install malware on user's machines.
This vulnerability let attackers to take complete control of vulnerable machines after viewing websites that contained specially crafted Flash content - you can start to see
why Steve Jobs doesn't like it. We've had been seeing a lot of emails recenty being sent out attempting to direct users to sites containing such content.
Adobe also announced that a patch for a related vulnerability in Acrobat won't be available until June 29, but has
published some interim workarounds, including deleting the autoplay.dll (Windows), AuthPlayLib.bundle (Mac OS X) or libauthplay.so.0.0.0 (Linux) files or disabling JavaScript within Acrobat.
The patch can be
downloaded from the Adobe site.
Reader Comments