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Adobe releases fix for Flash Player security flaws

Adobe releases fix for Flash Player security flaws - Researchers discovered zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player browser plugin which led Mozilla and Google to disable in their browsers.

But now Adobe has released an update to its Flash Player plug-in for Linux, Windows and Mac.

The update fixes critical flaws that place users' systems at risk due to unexpected and unnecessary ntrusions.

The flaws in Flash were revealed when 400GB of security firm Hacking Team's internal product source code and documents were leaked online.

Web browser Mozilla has blocked all susceptible versions of Adobe Flash plug-in on its Firefox browser after security glitches were found in the platform.

The users can update Flash Player to version 18.0.0.209 to protect their systems from attacks.