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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho Danchev

Adobe zaps critical Shockwave vulnerabilities

By | May 11, 2010, 1:27pm PDT

Summary: Adobe joined the Patch Tuesday train today with the release of patches for at least 21 documented security vulnerabilities in the Shockwave and ColdFusion product lines.

Adobe joined the Patch Tuesday train today with the release of patches for at least 21 documented security vulnerabilities in the Shockwave and ColdFusion product lines.

According to the APSB10-12 security bulletin, 18 of the 21 flaws affected the Shockwave Player, a free software product that lets users view rich-media content on the web.

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Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.6.606 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the affected system.

This bulletin is rated “critical” and Adobe recommends users of Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.6.606 and earlier versions update to Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609.

The second bulletin (APSB10-11) is rated “important” and fixes three flaws that could lead to cross-site scripting and information disclosure issues.

These vulnerabilities affect ColdFusion 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.

Adobe said none of the fixes in this update involve zero-day issues or exploits in the wild.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.

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The most important disclosure is of my employment with Kaspersky Lab as a member of the global research and analysis team. Kaspersky Lab is a global company specializing in anti-malware and secure content management technologies. I do not own stocks or other investments in any technology company.

Biography

Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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I have updated to latest version of Shockwave via the link you have provided, and it has silently installed Google toolbar, without any prompt !
Upon uninstalling, it left junk files in my C drive, let alone the Registry.
Adobe & Google are shameful criminal !
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I ran into the same thing. I suggest that users write "nastygrams" to Adobe and maybe even Google for trying to slip that under the door. Shame on both of them.
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