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New Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability

Posted By Pete at 10:45 AM, July 27, 2009

Just a heads up - There is a new Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (again).

An excerpt:

"A critical vulnerability exists in the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87) for Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat v9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems. This vulnerability (CVE-2009-1862) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild via limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader v9 on Windows."

There is currently no fix for it, however the malware used for exploit is detected as Exploit.SWF.Agent.bs in our malware library. According to Adobe a fix should be available for it on July 31st.

Please proceed with caution when browsing unknown and shady looking sites (especially links from spam!).

Posted by: Pete at 10:45 AM
Categories: Malware , Viruses

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