Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: Adobe Shockwave Player, Flash Player, Flash Media Server, and Photoshop How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing your users to open malicious files or visit specially crafted web sites Impact: Various results; in the worst case, an attacker can gain complete control of your … [Read more...]
Adobe Drops Reader, Shockwave, and Flash Updates on Patch Day
Severity: High 10 February, 2011 Summary: These vulnerabilities affects: Recent versions of Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Shockwave, Flash, and ColdFusion How an attacker exploits it: In various ways, but most commonly by enticing your users into visiting a website containing malicious Flash, Reader, or Shockwave content Impact: In the worst case, an attacker can execute code on … [Read more...]
Researcher releases zero day Shockwave vulnerability and exploit
Yesterday, Adobe released a Security Advisory in response to a grey hat researcher who published details about a zero day vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave. The researcher from Abysssec described a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the popular multimedia rendering application -- and he describe the flaw in very great technical detail. He even posted Proof-of-Concept … [Read more...]
Adobe Corrects 18 Shockwave Security Flaws
Summary: This vulnerability affects: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.6.606 and earlier, running on Windows and Macintosh computers How an attacker exploits it: By enticing your users into visiting a website containing a malicious Shockwave or Director file Impact: An attacker can execute code on your computer, potentially gaining control of it What to do: If you allow … [Read more...]