[HIB]Adobe fixes 20 vulnerabilities in Shockwave

VULNERABLE ISN'T THE WORD for Adobe's Shockwave media player that is getting a whopping big patch to cover 20 security holes.The patches cover Adobe's Shockwave Player 11.5.7.609 for both the Windows and Mac platforms and the company is rating the update as critical."The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the affected system," Adobe said in a security advisory.Of the 20 holes, 18 fixes cover problems that would allow remote code execution on affected systems. One could allow a denial of service attack and the final flaw would allow a denial attack and could theoretically be exploited to allow remote code execution. Allegedly no attacks have been spotted in the wild yet, however.

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