ID: IRCNE2013071899
Date: 2013-07-13
According to “krebsonsecurity”, Adobe on Tuseday issued updates for FlashPlayer and AIR, fixing the same critical vulnerability in both products.
Adobe’s Flash and AIR updates also fix a critical bug that was reported by Google’s security team, although Adobe says it is not aware of any exploits or attacks in the wild against the vulnerability address in its update. The latest Flash version is 11.7.700.224 for Windows and 11.7.700.225 for Mac OS X. This link will tell you which version of Flash your browser has installed. IE10 and Chrome should auto-update their versions of Flash. If your version of Chrome is not yet updated to v. 11.7.700.225, you may just need to restart the browser.
The most recent versions of Flash are available from the Adobe download center, but beware potentially unwanted add-ons, like McAfee Security Scan). To avoid this, uncheck the pre-checked box before downloading, or grab your OS-specific Flash download from here. Windows users who browse the Web with anything other than Internet Explorer will need to apply this patch twice, once with IE and again using the alternative browser (Firefox, Opera, e.g.).
In addition, AdobeAIR (required by some applications like Pandora Desktop, for example) was updated to v. 3.7.0.2090 for Windows and Android, and 3.7.0.2100 for Mac OS X. Adobe AIR checks for and prompts you to install any available updates anytime you launch an application that uses AIR.
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