Adobe hurries update to fix Flash zero-day vulnerabilities

Adobe this week released an update to its Flash Player to close three vulnerabilities, two of which are under active attack.

"Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2013-0643 and CVE-2013-0648 are being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking a link which directs to a website serving malicious Flash (SWF) content," according to a security bulletin.

Users are encouraged to update to version 11.6.602.171 for Windows and Macintosh and 11.2.202.273 for Linux.

Updates can be installed here.

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