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A Flash vulnerability subject to emergency patching by Adobe has been used in all major exploit kits to compromise users not already updated. The vulnerability (CVE-2015-7645) patched in October last year was the first zero day since Adobe implemented more hardened security. It was also the most pervasive among the …

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  1. Terje

    If I'm understanding this correctly, this is a one year old vulnerability that has been actively exploited by everyone and his mother and not patched until now?

    If so then it is yet another obvious reason to stop using flash now.

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  2. Chewi

    You didn't understand this correctly

    The vulnerability (CVE-2015-7645) patched in October last year…

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    1. Terje
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      Re: You didn't understand this correctly

      Ahh, thanks, missed the patched last october bit at the top.

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  3. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    I am now flash free, have been for a long while now.

    It just is not worth it.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    ...and still the BBC insist on it

    Despite also insisting we all register with them and have an identity but not using it for anything useful like a preference to not autoplay and to serve up HTML5 content instead of Flash :(

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