Security Vulnerabilities in APSB18-42 for Adobe Flash Player

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The vulnerabilities in the following products could cause the system to become vulnerable to malicious security attack: Adobe Flash Player Active X plug-in for Internet Explorer

Analysis

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.

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Adobe Flash Player Active X plug-in for Internet Explorer