Adobe said friday that it has identified and issued a patch for adobe flash player, just days after issuing a similiar patch.
Adobe issued Adobe Flash Playaer 10.2.159.1 on Friday, for users of Flash version 10.2.153, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 for those that use Chrome. Adobe also said it recomendeds users of Adobe AIR 2.6.19120 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Update to Adobe AIR 2.6.19140.
Why? According to Adobe, there have been reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via malicious Web page, or flash(.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word(.doc) or Microsoft excel(.xls) file delivered as an email attachment, targeting the windows platfrom. The updates resolve a memory corruption vulnarability that could lead to code execution, Adobe said.
Adobe reader 9.x for UNIX, Adobe Reader for Android, and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.X are not affected by this issue.
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