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Adobe releases fix for new zero-day exploit

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Yesterday, Adobe released an update for the recently-discovered Flash security vulnerability CVE-2015-7645. Kudos to Adobe for acting quickly to fix this bug, which is being actively exploited on the web.

The new version of Flash (19.0.0.226) addresses the CVE-2015-7645 vulnerability and two others. Additional details are available in the associated security bulletin. Other changes in this version of Flash are described in a post on the Flash runtime announcement site.

As usual, Internet Explorer on newer versions of Windows will get the new version of Flash via Windows Update, and Chrome will update itself via its own auto-updater.

If you’re still using Flash in a web browser, you need to install this update as soon as possible.

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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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