Security → Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.168

I feel better now that Adobe has released an update this month

»www.adobe.com/products/f ··· on3.html

Thanks.

Beat me to it, should have gotten up when the alarm first went off

The early bird gets the worm, um, patch

And applicable Adobe SB:
»www.adobe.com/support/se ··· -21.html

thanks

Fixed Issues

September 10th, 2013

•3587773 - [External bug][iOS]Creating too many FileStream objects will cause app to crash on iOS

•3601024 - [Safari OS X 10.9] - File Downloads now work
•3611679 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Caption colors now render correctly
•3507613 - [Win7 IE10] - A Microsoft update to Internet Explorer corrects the following issue: Mouse movement interferes with Flash Player display updates
•3575123 - [Mac][FullScreen, MouseLock] - Corrects an issue where when the mouse movement values for a given frame were identical to the values of the preceding frame, the values returned would be zero
•3609793 - [Chrome] - Improved Audio Latency path is enabled by default
•3507613 - [Internet Explorer 10] [Win7] - An update to IE10 resulted in an improvement where instantiating an ActiveX Flash Player instance in IE 10 using a Windowless Mode (opaque or transparent) now works
•3597568 - [MacOS 10.9] - Mavericks Developer Preview 3 corrects an issue where Flash Player configuration files were not readable by Flash Player
•3604526 - [IME CCJK] - The IME candidate window position no longer moves to the left when the composition string extends beyond a single line in a textfield
•3583135 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Changing the options on a caption no longer erroneously resets that caption's position
•3602519 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Video on NYTimes.com now plays correctly
•3609793 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Audio latency improvements are enabled by default
•3613819 - [iOS7] [AIR]- Using Sound.play app asks permission for accessing the Microphone even when microphone API is not used in the app
•3587452 - [Android] [AIR] - 144x144 image size icon should be supported on android
•3570724 - [Flash Access] - Ability to specify a shorter timeout for license response
•3580139 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] [Mac] - screen.yahoo.com - video playback stopped after exiting full-screen mode
•3580607 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Resolves video jitter after exiting fullscreen mode on an embedded YouTube video
•3572762 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - A stream with WebVTT captions now plays all of the captions available in a stream
•3572767 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are no longer erroneously broken across multiple lines
•3577355 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are now displayed when seeking backwards in a video stream
•3577367 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Caption customizations are now displayed on the correct frame
•3583137 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are now displayed with the correct font weight
•3586532 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Ampersand, Less Than and Greater Than cue escape characters are now correctly displayed
•3583922 - [Internet Explorer] - ExternalInterface now works correctly in instances where SWF content was embedded using only the tag.
•3599625 - [Internet Explorer] - Fullscreen Mode now works correctly on [url]»apps.facebook.com/warcom ··· er[/url]
•3582320 - [Win8] [ARM] - Flash video now appears as expected on [url]»www.orange.fr[/url]
•3600931 - [Win8] - Playback Controls are now rendered correctly on [url]»www.cnn.com/video/[/url]
•3590934 - [Win8] [Firefox] - When the Windows display settings are zoomed to 150%, the right-click context menu in Flash Player now works correctly
•3606308 - [Android][SecureSocket] [AIR] - Application getting crash when trying to connect with host contains SSL certificate.
•3077653 - [iOS] [AIR] - Creating too many FileStream objects will cause app to crash on iOS.
•717340 - [Mozilla] [Mac] [Dual Monitor] - Fixes an issue where the Cursor disappeared when moving from Full-Screen video in the second display to Firefox/Safari in the primary display.
•3560721 - [iOS] [AIR] - Application crashes having Microphone running for 10 to 20 mins
•3572885 - [Android] [AIR] - 'orienattionChange' event is not fired when Stage rotated through setOrientation() method
•3554585 - [Android] [AIR] - Stage is blank in GPU mode because of rotationY property
•Multiple stability and security fixes

Adobe Flash Player WHQL Download Page
»get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Check What Version of Adobe Flash Player You Currently Have
»www.adobe.com/software/f ··· h/about/

Adobe Flash Player Standalone Full Installer Download Page
»www.adobe.com/special/pr ··· on3.html

Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.69 and earlier versions on Android 4.x devices should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.81.

Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.64 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x should update to Flash Player 11.1.111.73.

New android versions available here (scroll down):
»helpx.adobe.com/flash-pl ··· ons.html

They're often slow on updating the apk links, but you can just edit it yourself by pasting in the appropriate version #. This time, I was able to update through Play on Gingerbread by selecting Flash from the Play list of all installed apps. Not sure if that'll work for previous installs on Jellybean.

Linky

»download.macromedia.com/ ··· _ics.apk

Thanks for the update. I forgot today was the day. Cluster updating (Java/Flash) did not occur last month. It was nice and refreshing.

Yeah but we got double this month

Thanks Stuart.

Thanks StuartMW .

I wanna know why Adobe claims this version of Flash won't work on Fx 4 (which I have on my older XP computer which I am on at the moment). It says AT LEAST Fx 17.0 is needed. Strange. It works fine on Fx 4 but I prefer to just let Fx 4 use HTML 5 which it will not do if Flash is enabled.

I installed the latest Flash for Opera 12.16 which is also on this XP computer. Stupid Flash auto enabled the plugin for Fx4. That happens also on Fx 17 on my Win 8 computer. The plugin should not get turned on just because you updated Flash.

I don't see why installing Flash for Opera makes Fx and SeaMonkey (also on my XP computer) pick it up and turn on and start running the stupid Flash plugins that Mozilla browsers use now that won't exit when you stop using Flash. I don't see why Adobe doesn't make so you install Flash for whatever browser you want it for and not for other browsers also. Flash also should not enable itself when installed/updated and it is currently disabled on browsers. It enabled itself on Fx, SM and Opera where it is disabled on all three.

Thank you SUMo told me as well.

I was under the impression were we not to point directly at installers

I was also under that impression, but can't seem to find that specific prohibition now. I guess technically an apk is just a fancy zip archive & won't be auto-installed even on Android.

From the FAQ »Posting Rules - Security

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Direct links to any executable file or links to sites that promote hacking or provide downloads of Trojans, viruses, etc... are not allowed.

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LOL

Well the Adobe Flash Player could probably qualify as a "Trojans, viruses, etc"

Exactly. APK files are install packages for Android devices (phones/tablets/etc). They're just a ZIP file (change the extension and try it) containing various files including ARM processor executables (.o files).

On a PC/Mac/etc an APK file is completely benign (unless it isn't actually an APK but a fake one). Most Android devices are configured to NOT install valid APK packages unless you override the default security settings.

did i miss the shock (v12.0.4.144) and reader(v11.0.04) 9/11/13... somewhere?
because they updated as well

Yes, you did

»Adobe Reader updates available on FTP site

»Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat APSB13-22

»Security update available for Adobe Shockwave Player

Has anyone experienced the "multi-byte text may appear garbled on some websites" issue that occurs with this version of Flash Player on Windows 8 with IE10? I'm wondering if this is widespread or a minor thing.

Did you notice that ".174" came out for IE only but did not show up for a Windows 8 user? This is in another thread. Things are getting even more confusing, it seems.

No, I've been busy and haven't read the forum much since Tuesday. (I don't even have the security patches installed yet except the IE cumulative update for IE 10 on Windows 8). So, I just read that thread now.

I suspect the reason there is no update for IE10 on Windows 8 has to do with the known issue of multibyte text appearing garbled on some websites with .168. But I agree it is confusing!

Maybe MS is slow. Remember the whole fiasco over the repeating Office 2007 updates? :P