Once again Adobe Flash Player is the target of hackers in the wild. Adobe has released security updates for several of its products announcing that the fix for a critical Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) exploited in targeted attacks will only be issued later this week.
A security fix for the vulnerability is expected to become available starting from June 16.
The security vulnerability was reported by Anton Ivanov from Kaspersky that explained that the flaw could be exploited by hackers gain complete control of the vulnerable systems.
The Flash Player flaw CVE-2016-4171 affects versions 21.0.0.242 and earlier for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.
Original Source: Security Affairs
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