Security Alert (A17-10-05): Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

Description:

Security update is released for Adobe Flash Player to address vulnerability caused by type confusion. To successfully exploit the vulnerability, a remote attacker could entice a targeted user to open a specially crafted Flash file, web page or document that supports embedded Flash content.

Reports indicate that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild against Windows users.

Affected Systems:

• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, Macintosh and Linux 27.0.0.159 and earlier versions
• Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome 27.0.0.159 and earlier versions
• Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 27.0.0.130 and earlier versions

Impact:

A successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution on an affected system.

Recommendation:

Upgrade Adobe Flash Player to the following versions to address the issues. The upgrade can be obtained by using the auto-update mechanism or by downloading at the following URLs:

• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime 27.0.0.170 for Windows and Macintosh
  https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
  http://www.adobe.com/products/players/flash-player-distribution.html
  
  
• Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.170 for Google Chrome
  https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/
  
  
• Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.170 for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance
  
  
• Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.170 for Linux
  https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
  
  

If you have multiple browsers, you are required to perform the Adobe Flash Player upgrade for each browser, the Flash Player version can be checked at

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

More Information:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-32.html
https://www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/alert/17101702
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/10/16/Adobe-Releases-Security-Updates
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11292