Adobe issues emergency patch for zero-day Flash vulnerabilities. Adobe Systems released an emergency security update today that addresses a trio of vulnerabilities in Flash, two of which the company said were already being exploited by hackers.
Today's surprise update -- the company's third for the browser plug-in this month -- patches holes "that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system," Adobe said in a security bulletin. "Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648 are being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking a link which directs to a Web site serving malicious Flash content," the advisory stated, identifying the vulnerabilities by their Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures.
"The exploit for CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648 is designed to target the Firefox browser. " Adobe recommends users update to the latest versions: The update is Adobe's third this month and its second emergency update in less than three weeks. An Update on Flash Player and Android « Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team Blog. We announced last November that we are focusing our work with Flash on PC browsing and mobile apps packaged with Adobe AIR, and will be discontinuing our development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers.
This post provides an update on what this means for ongoing access to the Flash Player browser plugin for Android in the Google Play Store. The Flash Player browser plugin integrates tightly with a device’s browser and multimedia subsystems (in ways that typical apps do not), and this necessitates integration by our device ecosystem partners. To ensure that the Flash Player provides the best possible experience for users, our partner program requires certification of each Flash Player implementation. Certification includes extensive testing to ensure web content works as expected, and that the Flash Player provides a good user experience. Certified devices typically include the Flash Player pre-loaded at the factory or as part of a system update.
Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5 (Adobe Featured Blogs) Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology.
For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices. However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash. (We have closed comments on this blog post. Adobe propose un convertisseur de Flash en HTML5.
Comme Microsoft avec Internet Explorer 6, Adobe va-t-il tuer sa propre création, choyée depuis des années, le format Flash ?
C’est en tout cas ce que laisse penser sa dernière initiative, dévoilée hier. Nommé Wallaby, cet utilitaire permet de convertir les fichiers Flash (format .FLA) en HTML5. Rien que ça. Comme Microsoft avec Internet Explorer 6, Adobe va-t-il tuer sa propre création[1], choyée depuis des années, le format Flash ? C’est en tout cas ce que laisse penser sa dernière initiative, dévoilée hier. Cette annonce, faite dans une relative discrétion, sonne comme une sorte de réponse – quoique un peu tardive – au refus de Steve Jobs d’intégrer la technologie Flash dans l’iPhone et l’iPad, et un peu comme un acte d’allégeance à ceux qui honnissent Flash et pour qui HTML5 est la seule option valable. What Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad Demo.
Pour Steve Jobs, Flash est aussi ringard que les disquettes.