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Adobe Flash vulnerability

Urgency:

Urgent (Small/Medium/Large/Urgent)

Description

Inter Engineering warns about a critical vulnerability at Adobe Flash.

Summary

A new critical vulnerability on Adobe Flash has been discovered.

According to F-Secure (http://www.f-secure.com/vulnerabilities/SA200900917) and Shavlik vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and earlier which can allow attackers to take the complete control of the affected machine!!

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability when a specially crafted SWF file is loaded in Flash Player by the user...This could be happened while a user was visiting some Web pages that could exploit this vulnerability by installing trojans or backdoors. 

Adobe has released a patch to fix this vulnerability.

Suggested solutions

It is strongly recommended by Inter Engineering that simple users to system administrators take actions to apply this patch on their systems.

You can download and find more information on the patch on Adobe's website:

-- Adobe Flash Player 9.x --
Update to version 9.0.159.0:
www.adobe.com/go/kb406791

-- Adobe Flash Player 10.x --
Update to version 10.0.22.87:
www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer

It is well known that for corporate environments keeping workstations and servers with the latest up-to-date security patches (Adobe and Non-Adobe related (eg Microsoft)) can be challenging. Inter Engineering offers Shavlik NetCheck Protect solutions, to allow administrators, the fully automated centralized management (scanning, deployment and feedback) of patching across the corporate network.
 

More Information

For more technical information contact Support Department via e-mail Support@inter.gr or via phone +30.2410.670030.

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