Adobe fixes six critical Flash bugs | Security | Macworld

Adobe fixes six critical Flash bugs | Security | Macworld: “Tuesday’s update was 2010’s third for Flash Player, the Adobe browser plug-in that’s installed on an estimated 99 percent of all personal computers. Previous updates in March and June have fixed 33 other flaws.

As is Adobe’s practice, it revealed only the scantiest of details about the half-dozen bugs in the accompanying security advisory. Five of the six were labeled as ‘memory corruption’ vulnerabilities, while the sixth could potentially be used in a ‘click-jacking’ attack.

Adobe said it was unaware of any in-the-wild exploitation of the vulnerabilities.

One of the patches is a second try for Adobe.

The company tried to patch the CVE-2010-2188 flaw two months ago when it last updated Flash. However, about two weeks after that June 10 update, Adobe admitted its fix had failed. “

There is also a security update for Adobe Reader pending. Look out for that next week.