Home / Software & Gaming / Security / Adobe Flash Player needs updating again, new ‘critical’ bug found

Adobe Flash Player needs updating again, new ‘critical’ bug found

Matthew Wilson October 16, 2015 Security

Adobe has issued another update for the Flash Player this week as another day zero exploit has been discovered. The new update addresses “critical” security vulnerabilities, which if exploited would have allowed malicious native-code to run without the user even being aware. The new patch was released on Tuesday and was actually supposed to fix an earlier issue.

Adobe issued a patch earlier this month to fix security holes, though it turned out the bug was still present, causing an additional patch to be issued this week.

how-u

Attackers abusing these Flash loopholes are currently only known to target government agencies as part of an on-going campaign known as Pawn Storm. Trend Micro published a blog post about the zero-day bug as well, which explains the security flaw a little better.

An Adobe spokeswoman did confirm to Ars Technica that researchers showed the company with proof of the exploit on Tuesday morning, resulting in the emergency patch update.

KitGuru Says: These problems are becoming pretty common with Flash and a lot of companies and even web browsers are dropping support for it entirely due to security issues like these. 

Become a Patron!

Tags

Check Also

Chinese Steam

Valve confirms Steam has not suffered a data breach

This week, someone claimed to have breached Valve's Steam servers, coming away with account information for over 89 million users. Something seemed a bit fishy about the claim at the time, but now, Valve has confirmed that no data breach has taken place.

6 comments

  1. Toben Coffey
    October 16, 2015 at 11:01 pm

    Ready to completely uninstall Flash at this point

  2. epiquestions
    October 16, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    Time to pull the plug.

  3. MangoMango
    October 17, 2015 at 12:16 am

    How is Adobe still even a functioning company at this point?

  4. bonnie gonzalez
    October 17, 2015 at 7:20 am

    Here is something really worth your attention , a very good opportunity for work for those who want to utilise their free time to make some extra money using their computers… I have been working on this for last two and half years and I am earning 50-80 dollar/ hour … In the past week I have earned 13,245 dollars for almost 20 hours sitting ….

    There are no special skills required just basic typing and an internet connection ….

    There are no time constraints … You may do this any time when you are free ….

    check it what I’ve been doing….Visit websiteIink on my profiIe` to see what I do`

    *e

  5. Sevuz
    October 17, 2015 at 9:05 am

    This will never end

  6. Jeordie White
    October 19, 2015 at 11:29 pm

    What do you mean? They are an extremely profitable company. Even if flash is becoming more and more obsolete by the day, Flash Professional was never their primary source of revenue for adobe. Not to say it certainly wasn’t lucrative for quite awhile. It still was a small part in their arsenal of IP. Photoshop is still largely their biggest seller as well as premier pro, amongst their many other array of apps.

© Copyright 2025, Kitguru.net All Rights Reserved Standard Terms

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!