If you are using Adobe Flash Player to view videos over the internet, like youtube, googlevideos, play games etc, you might want to update your Adobe Flash Player to the latest version- 9,0,124,0.
Vulnerability description:
"Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier, and 8.0.39.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file with a negative Scene Count value, which passes a signed comparison, is used as an offset of a NULL pointer, and triggers a buffer overflow".
Above Description extracted from this page Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
Adobe's response More information on recent Flash Player exploit.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
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