Critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Jun 7th, 2010 | Category: Norman

A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions, the authplay.dll component that is part of Adobe Reader and Acrobat version 9.3.2 and earlier 9.x versions.

Critical is Adobe’s highest vulnerability rating and could when exploited allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat version 8.x are not vulnerable.

More information is available in Adobe’s security advisory 10-01. 

As of this writing no updates are available. There are reports that this vulnerability is being actively exploited.

This security advisory will be updated when more information is available.

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