Alternately, users can use Flash's built-in automatic update mechanism to grab the new versions.Īlso on Tuesday, Adobe announced plans to drop Flash Player security support next year for Mac owners whose machines run PowerPC G3 processors. PT.įlash Player 10.0.42.34 for Windows, Mac and Linux can be downloaded from Adobe's Web site. Adobe released the update around 4:30 p.m.

The team is working through a few final checks,' said Brad Arkin, Adobe's director for product security and privacy, on Twitter late Tuesday. 'The flash player bulletin will be up soon. 'Well actually, I might have to give Apple a few notches up over Adobe,' he added, referring to Apple's reputation for terse descriptions of the vulnerabilities it patches in Mac OS X.Īdobe also had some problems getting out the update yesterday, the day it had promised last week it would deliver the Flash Player patches. 'Overall their security advisories are on par with Apple's,' said Andrew Storms, the director of security operations at nCircle Network Security. The paucity of information included in Adobe's advisory, however, rankled at least one security expert.

Microsoft and Adobe have been collaborating on security issues for months, part of the former's long-term plan to beef up the security of the Windows ecosystem by helping major third-party developers, such as Adobe, find and fix flaws. It also addressed a bug in the Flash Player ActiveX control for IE that could be used to pilfer information, said Adobe, which credited a Microsoft researcher with reporting the problem.

The update to Flash Player 10.0.42.34 fixed data injection and integer overflow vulnerabilities, patched a pair of memory corruption bugs, plugged a hole in JPEG image parsing and resolved 'multiple crash vulnerabilities,' the company's advisory said. Although Adobe committed earlier this year to releasing security fixes every three months for its Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat software, Flash Player remains on an ad hoc schedule.Įven so, Adobe piggybacked the Flash Player security patches with the six updates that Microsoft released the same day for Windows, Internet Explorer (IE) and Office.

Yesterday's update was the first for Flash Player since late July.

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