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Posted on 03/11/2016 10:29:07 PM PST by Swordmaker
Another day, another Adobe Flash security vulnerability.
Adobe issued an emergency patch for Flash overnight to fix a security hole that’s already being actively used in the wild. CVE-2016-1010, which an attacker could use to execute code on your machine, is being used in “targeted attacks,” according to Adobe.
The good news is there’s an update that you can get already – or you might already have it, if you turned on automatic updates.
The bad news? Well, it actually affects more than just Flash, extending to Adobe AIR, AIR for Android, Flash Player for Linux and a number of other clients.
Given the attack is already being used, it’s worth heading to Adobe’s site and making sure you have the latest of everything listed there or just uninstalling Flash altogether.
A user-mode application should not be able to cause the OS to crash. If it was crashing, there was a bug in the OS or some kernel-mode driver allowing that to happen. Flash can certainly cause performance issues, hog memory or CPU, and can be the source of security holes, but it can’t cause a modern protected mode OS to crash unless there is some flaw in the OS. At best it might be a trigger for some bug in the OS.
But it certainly is a CPU hog, killing battery life and making the computer sluggish, as well as a never-ending source of security holes. I wish it would just go away, but it’s so pervasive, it seems like we’ll never be rid of it.
OS X didn't crash. . . but Flash would crash Safari, lock it up. Cause other problems. Refuse to let go of the CPU for other applications, even with pre-emptive multitasking. Remember, OS X is UNIX™, the OS very seldom crashed. It just caused OS X more problems than another.
OS X didn't crash. . . but Flash would crash Safari, lock it up. Cause other problems. Refuse to let go of the CPU for other applications, even with pre-emptive multitasking. Remember, OS X is UNIX™, the OS very seldom crashed. It just caused OS X more problems than another.Well, you said "OS X Macs were crashing"... :)
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