Friday, November 7, 2008
Adobe has issued a new patch in an attempt to fix up to six flaws in its Flash Player program.
Rated critical, the new patch addresses vulnerabilities which could lead to a potential network security and data security breaches.
ZDNet notes that one such flaw concerns the way that Flash handles the jar: protocol in Mozilla browsers.
The website claims that left unresolved, this particular vulnerability could lead to a data security compromise and information disclosure.
At the same time, Adobe also released a patch to resolve issues which are a particular problem for its ColdFusion servers operating in a shared environment.
The flaw could allow a hacker to bypass sandbox user rights limits and potentially launch an escalation attack to breach network security.
Earlier this week, the group also issued a series of patches to address flaws in its Acrobat Reader program.
IT ProPortal notes that security researchers first identified the problems in May.
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