Adobe Flash Player was just updated last week and is now due for another patch. This also shows how out of sync version numbers have become. The most common will be for Windows and Macintosh instances of Adobe Flash Player updating to version 11.4.402.265. Android and Linux users can find the latest security version numbers from the accompanying Security Bulletin.
From the Flash Player 11.4 release notes, the software has fixed many issues and added new features.
Fixed issues:
- Netstream crashes intermittently on disconnect(3193417)
- Issue with stopping live audio streaming on AIR Android(3188340)
- drawWithQuality() does not render filters properly on Android devices(3224928)
- Clipborad.generalClipboard.setData doesn’t work on iOS(3226045)
- Some FLV video content does not play in Flash Player on Windows (3187569)
- Only right side audio playing in Flash Player based apps in Firefox on Windows(3289279)
- Mouse Lock feature disabled after entering Full Screen Interactive mode(3174344)
- [iOS5] TextFields with embedded fonts garbled on mobile devices(3161138)
- First frame of some live streaming contents freezes(3207896)
- Application icons for 50X50, 100X100, 1024X1024 are now supported for iOS applications in the Application Descriptor(3217144)
- Applications using Native extensions sometimes crash on iOS when using certain external libraries.eg. Libxml2.dylib (3226974)
- Some deviation is observed when a launch image of resolution 768 x 1004 or 1024 x 748 is packaged in a full-screen iPad application. (3230762). The new guidelines for using launch images can be referred to here
- H264 videos on iOS crash when switching between two NetStreams attached to a StageVideo object(3206438)
- Issue with CameraRoll.browseForImage() causes transparency loss resulting in white color(3291312)
New Features:
- ActionScript Workers (Flash Player)
- Sandbox Bridge support (Flash Player)
- Licensing support: Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming (Flash Player)
- Stage3D “constrained” profile for increased GPU reach (Flash Player and AIR)
- LZMA support for ByteArray (Flash Player and AIR)
- StageVideo attachCamera/Camera improvements (Flash Player and AIR)
- Compressed texture with alpha support for Stage3D (Flash Player and AIR)
- DXT Encoding(Flash Player and AIR)
- Deprecated Carbon APIs for AIR (AIR)
- Direct AIR deployment using ADT (AIR)
- Push Notifications for iOS (AIR)
- Ambient AudioPlaybackMode (AIR)
- Exception Support in Native Extensions for iOS (AIR)
- New option in ADT to list the attached mobile devices (AIR)
- ADT option to resolve ANE symbol conflicts on iOS (AIR)
Most notably, the updates resolve a few vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution or information leaks. See the Security Bulletin for full details.
An updated Google Chrome with a patched Flash Player has been released. You can check your version of Adobe Flash and download the update from Adobe.