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Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev

Critical security holes in Adobe Shockwave

By | August 24, 2010, 2:40pm PDT

Summary: The vulnerabilities, rated “critical,” affect Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh.

Adobe has shipped a Shockwave Player update to fix 20 security holes, some serious enough to lead to system takeover attacks.

The vulnerabilities, rated “critical,” affect Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh.

From Adobe’s advisory:

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the affected system.

Users of Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 and earlier versions should immediately upgrade to version 11.5.8.612 using this link: http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/.

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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 security evangelist. 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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