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New Adobe vulnerability has no patch yet

By Gina on March 15, 2011 | Vulnerabilities, Critical Adobe flaw, Adobe Flash Player vulnerability, Flash Player flaw, Vulnerability affected Flash Player, Adobe Reader vulnerability, Acrobat flaw, malicious Excel sheet, Adobe Reader X vulnerability, patch for Adobe New Adobe vulnerability has no patch yet

Critical Adobe flaw was found in a current version of Adobe Flash Player on all supported platforms. The flaw is connected exploited via the authplay.dll Flash Player integration. Vulnerability affected Flash Player installations, Adobe Reader and Acrobat as well.

However, there is no effective cure for now which will help against the exploitation but it is recommended only to open reliable documents from trusted sources.

According to Adobe , they found malicious Excel sheet with malicious SWF content exploiting the flaw as an attached file to email. An explanation of this move is quite simple because nobody expects Excel sheet to be fabricated. By not opening unreliable documents you may avoid becoming a victim of a cybercriminals.

Adobe comments they will release a patch for this flaw around 21st of March. The patch for Adobe Reader X will come a little bit later because of the sandbox model in it.

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