{"id":285936,"date":"2018-11-21T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=285936"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:31:46","slug":"flash-player-suffers-critical-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/285936-flash-player-suffers-critical-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash Player suffers critical vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its Flash Player product that allowed attackers to initiate code execution conditions, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/flash-player-type-confusion-critical-vulnerability-another-reason-not-to-use-it-523887.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia News reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company rated the vulnerability as &#8220;critical,&#8221; and added that if exploited, it &#8220;would allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The bug is caused by a type confusion error, caused when processing particular .swf files that have been created by attackers.<\/p>\n<p>This reportedly allowed attackers to compromise entire systems, meaning that Flash Player users should update the tool as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The issue affects multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS.<\/p>\n<p>However, Adobe says that updating is less important for Linux users, since attackers historically don&#8217;t target users on this operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/285834-top-tech-stocks-expected-to-continue-falling.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top tech stocks expected to continue falling<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its Flash Player product that allowed attackers to initiate code execution conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11399,15227,55574],"class_list":["post-285936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-adobe-flash","tag-cybersecurity","tag-security-vulnerabiiities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286004,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285936\/revisions\/286004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}