Flash For Linux Vulnerability
By Ian Scott
Another Adobe Flash vulnerability has been discovered in Versions 10.0.12.36, 9.0.151.0 and earlier, for Linux. According to the Adobe website, “… that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. A specially formed SWF must be loaded in Flash Player for Linux by the user for an attacker to exploit this potential vulnerability.”
Adobe acknowledged and provided a fix for the vulnerability on December 17, 2008. Likely, most distributions of Linux have the fix in their updates and you should be able to obtain with whatever package management system your distribution uses.
You also can get a fixed version directly from Adobe.
Adobe’s bulletin and instructions for upgrading are here.
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