Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat to suffer critical security vulnerability

9th June, 2010 by adina
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Adobe has recently posted a warning regarding critical security vulnerability involving both Acrobat and Flash. Susceptibility covers Windows and Mac versions of Flash 10.0 or earlier and all the Acrobat 9 versions. They are all supposed to be used as remote control over users’ computers. The pre-release of Flash 10.1 as well as previous versions of Acrobat are not affected.

The security hole has no fix for the moment and has been used in real attacks against computers. For Acrobat users with Windows systems have the option of deleting, renaming or blocking the access to authplay.dll, but this action prevents PDF files to be opened with embedded Flash. There is no date scheduled for a patch to arrive for either of the software products.

The event is badly timed for Adobe, which recently tried to make publicity for Flash and presented it as a very secure environment in order to convince Apple and users as well that the plugin’s installation was really necessary for mobile devices. Flash 10.1 for Android 2.2 does not seem to have the same problem, but it is not yet in a final state.


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