Emergency Flash Player patch fixes zero-day critical flaw
Adobe Systems has released an emergency patch for Flash Player to fix a critical vulnerability that attackers are already taking advantage of.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-7855 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, is a use-after-free error that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
"Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-7855 exists in the wild, and is being used in limited, targeted attacks against users running Windows versions 7, 8.1 and 10," the company warned in a security advisory Wednesday.
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