MS Releases Critical Flash Update Early

Published on February 22, 2017 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Neowin reports that MS has released a Critical Update for Flash earlier than its March "Patch Tuesday" for multiple Windows platforms (Ext. link).

You can read about the update itself here:

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms17-feb?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-QClJXhxHeYdSrnWUFLmyYQ&tduid=(4bbadb17428544e57e0af542ab6f0be2)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-QClJXhxHeYdSrnWUFLmyYQ)()

"...the update "resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016." - MS Technet

Source:

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-releases-critical-security-update-for-flash-on-windows-after-patch-tuesday-delay

Comments

Hankers

on Feb 22, 2017

Thanks for the update, Seth.

Wizard1956

on Feb 22, 2017

Got mine.

alaknebs

on Feb 22, 2017

the other way of looking at it is... it's very late given flash patches aren't comboed into other win10 patches anyway and so shouldn't have been delayed.

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