Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Adobe Flash Player APSB18-42

Description

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address onecriticalvulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and oneimportantvulnerability in Adobe Flash Player installer. Successful exploitation could lead to Arbitrary Code Execution and privilege escalation in the context of the current user respectively.Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2018-15982 exists in the wild.

Affected Applications

Adobe Flash Player NPAPI plug-in

CVE References

CVE-2018-15982 CVE-2018-15983

Other References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-42