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Adobe Releases Flash Player v. 10.1.85.3

The fully patched Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 is now available from Adobe. The accelerated release of this patch, as I blogged yesterday, was sped up to address the issues brought up with vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.

From the Security Bulletin:

A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability (CVE-2010-2884) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild against Adobe Flash Player on Windows. Adobe is not aware of any attacks exploiting this vulnerability against Adobe Reader or Acrobat to date.

Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris update to Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3, and users of Adobe Flash Player 10.1.92.10 for Android update to Adobe Flash Player 10.1.95.1.

You can download the latest updates from Adobe.com but I recommend following the links I’ve provided earlier to download Adobe Flash without McAfee scans, Adobe Download Manager, or other extras.

Another patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat will be coming the week of October 4th.