Adobe releases emergency patch to fix Flash Player vulnerabilityNovember 26, 2014 - 11:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Adobe released an emergency patch on Tuesday, Nov 25, to fix a Flash Player vulnerability that was fixed last month but was quickly exploited again. The company had issued a patch for the flaw, called CVE-2104-8439, but attackers soon found a way around that fix, PCWorld reports. The latest update to Flash adds a “mitigation” for CVE-2104-8439, a vulnerability that could lead to the installation of malware. The latest version for Windows and Apple’s Mac OS is 15.0.0.239, and the latest for Linux is 11.2.202.424. Flash Player for Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsers should automatically update, but the update also can be installed manually from Adobe. CVE-2014-8439 was patched on Oct. 14 along with three other vulnerabilities, but apparently the patch wasn’t enough to stop exploit-kit developers from reverse-engineering the fix and finding a way to continue to exploit it. Exploit kits are malicious software packages that automatically attack computers that browse to a website where one is installed, looking for software vulnerabilities and delivering malware. Timo Hirvonen, a senior researcher at F-Secure, wrote on Tuesday that the company received an exploit sample from independent security researcher Kaffeine. The exploit appeared to still work despite Adobe’s October patches. “We considered the possibility that maybe the latest patch prevented the exploit from working [but] the root cause of the vulnerability was still unfixed, so we contacted the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team,” Hirvonen wrote. Adobe “confirmed our theory and released an out-of-band update to provide additional hardening.” Kaffeine found the Angler exploit kit was exploiting CVE-2104-8439 again just a week after Adobe’s Oct. 14 patch release, with the Astrum and Nuclear exploit kits adding the same capability soon after, Hirvonen wrote. Related links: Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. Azerbaijan must respect human rights, Scholz tells Aliyev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for greater respect for human rights in Azerbaijan. Armenia: Defense Ministry warns against involving army in political processes The Ministry’s statement came after a video surfaced online, showing soldiers joining the protests in Tavush. Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. |