Flash Player vulnerable again a week after patching
Adobe has released yet another security update for Flash Player, to address a new set of six vulnerabilities that even affect the company's most recent patch that was issued just last week.
Last week, Adobe urged Windows and Mac users to upgrade Flash Player to 11.3.300.271 and Linux users to upgrade to 11.2.202.238, to mitigate a vulnerability that was being exploited in the wild; victims would open a Microsoft Word document and become infected, or would be compromised via the ActiveX version of Flash Player for Internet Explorer. This vulnerability could cause the computer to crash and potentially allow attackers to take control.
Today, Symantec confirmed that attacks were indeed being carried out, observing over 1300 instances of malicious emails since 10 August. It pointed users to the 11.3.300.271 patch and urged them to keep their systems up to date.
