Critical Flash update

Earlier this week, Adobe announced that they would delay this month’s Flash update for a few days, which would allow them to include a fix for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-4171) that’s being actively exploited on the web.

Yesterday Adobe released Flash 22.0.0.192, which addresses CVE-2016-4171 and thirty-five other vulnerabilities. Anyone who uses Flash should install the new version as soon as possible, but those of us who still use Flash in a web browser need to check their version and update immediately.

Recent versions of Internet Explorer and Edge will get the new version of Flash via Windows Update. Microsoft issued a related bulletin yesterday.

Chrome’s embedded Flash will be updated via its own internal updater. You can trigger the update by clicking the ‘hamburger’ menu button at the top right, then clicking Help and About Google Chrome.