New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Flaw Being Exploited

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New Adobe Flash Zero Day Being Exploited? — Krebs on Security

Attackers are exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash Player software to launch targeted attacks, according to several reliable sources. The attacks come less than three weeks after Adobe issued a critical update to fix a different Flash flaw that crooks were similarly exploiting to install malicious software.

According to sources, the attacks exploit a vulnerability in fully-patched versions of Flash, and are being leveraged in targeted spear-phishing campaigns launched against select organizations and individuals that work with or for the U.S. government. Sources say the attacks so far have embedded the Flash exploit inside of Microsoft Word files made to look like important government documents.

Adobe - Security Advisories: APSA11-02 - Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat

A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users) for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

This vulnerability (CVE-2011-0611) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word (.doc) file delivered as an email attachment, targeting the Windows platform. At this time, Adobe is not aware of any attacks via PDF targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.

Adobe warns of new Flash Player zero-day attack | ZDNet

Hackers are embedding malicious Flash Player files in Microsoft Word documents to launch targeted attacks against select businesses, according to a warning from Adobe.

Yet another Adobe Flash/Reader/Acrobat 0 day

Adobe released that a so far unpatched vulnerability has been used in recent targeted attacks.

Flash Player 10.2.153.1 is vulnerable, as is the flash player component used to execute flash in Adobe Reader / Acrobat. Adobe Reader X is vulnerable bu but not exploitable.

At this time, according to Adobe, the attack is performed using Flash files embedded in Word documents.

Note that Flash may be embedded in other Office document formats like Excel. Adobe is not planning on an out of band patch at this point, as Adobe Reader X is not exploitable.