Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild 187
An anonymous reader writes "Adobe has released an emergency patch for a critical vulnerability affecting Flash Player for Windows, Linux, and OS X, the exploitation of which can result in an attacker gaining remote control of the victims' systems. The flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, but apart from crediting its discovery to researchers Alexander Polyakov and Anton Ivanov of Kaspersky Labs, no details about the ongoing attack has been shared."
They even updated the explicitly unsupported NPAPI GNU/Linux version.
Re:For crying out loud ... (Score:2, Interesting)
But iDevices couldn't view "the whole web" (though Android can't either now) because Apple wouldn't let this exploit vector on iOS. Seems Steve Jobs really was pretty smart to tell Adobe to fuck off with their bloated malware
Re:For crying out loud ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Agree.
I'm a long time apple hater, but when I read that letter regarding flash, I was nodding the whole time.
Flash is a pile of junk, and if they are going to go all walled garden, flash seems a great thing to keep out of said garden.