Mistery
05-28-2008, 08:05 PM
It has shown that a vulnerability of Adobe's Flash Player is being abused.
Currently, Adobe is still investigating, and therefore no security update is available yet.
Adobe claims that the latest Flash Player version (Flash Player 9.0.124.0) is not affected, and therefore recommends to update to that version.
No need to panic, but I wanted to inform you, so that you can be a bit more careful until this security problem is solved.
Further reading here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue_u_1.html (English)
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/threatcon/index.jsp (English)
http://www.heise.de/security/Kritische-Schwachstelle-im-Flash-Player-wird-aktiv-ausgenutzt-Update--/news/meldung/108560 (German)
Currently, Adobe is still investigating, and therefore no security update is available yet.
Adobe claims that the latest Flash Player version (Flash Player 9.0.124.0) is not affected, and therefore recommends to update to that version.
No need to panic, but I wanted to inform you, so that you can be a bit more careful until this security problem is solved.
Further reading here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/05/potential_flash_player_issue_u_1.html (English)
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/threatcon/index.jsp (English)
http://www.heise.de/security/Kritische-Schwachstelle-im-Flash-Player-wird-aktiv-ausgenutzt-Update--/news/meldung/108560 (German)