Emergency Patch for Adobe Flash

Published on June 28, 2015 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Just to let everyone know this exists. If you use IE (on W8/8.1) or Chrome, you should have received it automatically.

Emergency Patch for Adobe Flash Zero-Day

Adobe Systems Inc. today released an emergency update to fix a dangerous security hole in its widely-installed Flash Player browser plugin. The company warned that the vulnerability is already being exploited in targeted attacks, and urged users to update the program as quickly as possible.

In an advisory issued Tuesday morning, Adobe said the latest version of Flash — v. 18.0.0.194 on Windows and Mac OS X — fixes a critical flaw (CVE-2015-3113) that is being actively exploited in “limited, targeted attacks.” The company said systems running Internet Explorer for Windows 7 and below, as well as Firefox on Windows XP, are known targets of these exploits.

If you’re unsure whether your browser has Flash installed or what version it may be running, browse to this link. Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome, as well as Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x, should automatically update to the latest version. To force the installation of an available update on Chrome, click the triple bar icon to the right of the address bar, select “About Google” Chrome, click the apply update button and restart the browser.–
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/emergency-patch-for-adobe-flash-zero-day/" - see external link

To check your installed version, navigate here: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Have a good weekend!

Comments

DaveBax

on Jun 28, 2015

Thank you Doc, got it.

However a question. I now have Adobe flash player 18 on here. However I also have Adobe flash player 14 on here. Do I need them both or can I delete the 14 player

DrJBHL

on Jun 28, 2015

Kill 14. You have a far more updated version.

And...you're welcome.

DaveBax

on Jun 28, 2015

Thank you.

alaknebs

on Jun 28, 2015

... 18 and 14? flash has 3 flavours.. so to speak.. the activex (ie), the npapi (firefox) and ppapi (chrome/opera)... some are bundled with the browser/os and don't need separate downloads. you might want to look at the flash module in your control panel to see which version of which flavour you have/need to update.

DaveRI

on Jun 28, 2015

Thanks for the heads-up.

ElanaAhova

on Jun 30, 2015

Doc, did you say kill 14? Wasn't bill enough?

harpo99999

on Jul 01, 2015

bill was the first on the list, just make sure you get all 14 of them

harpo , the ghost NON-subscriber

alaknebs

on Jul 09, 2015

incidentally.. there's been another one since...

18.0.0.203

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/07/adobe-flash-exploit-that-was-leaked-by-hacking-team-goes-wild-patch-now/

alaknebs

on Jul 14, 2015

yet another one... 18.0.0.209

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