Flash 20.0.0.267 fixes numerous security issues

There’s a holiday present from Adobe in the form of yet another new version of Flash. This one fixes at least nineteen security vulnerabilities – including one that is currently being exploited on the web – as well as a few other bugs. There are additional details in the release notes.

As usual, Chrome and Internet Explorer will get the new version via their own update mechanisms.

If you use Flash in a web browser, push that plate of turkey leftovers to the side and install the new Flash ASAP.

Update 2016Jan02: On January 1, Adobe released another version of Flash, this time just for the ActiveX version used in older versions of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and earlier. According to the updated release notes, Flash 20.0.0.270 includes one change: “Fixed loading problem with Flash Player in embedded applications”.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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