![]() ![]() According to an Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team blog posting from August 5th, the upcoming patch to Reader and Acrobat will include a new version of Flash (authplay.dll). The security bulletin says nothing about Flash or authplay.dll. ![]() ![]() during the week of August 16, 2010." However, the update is to fix a problem with integer math font parsing. As I write this, the latest copy of the Adobe Reader (v9.3.3) includes a buggy version of Flash (10.1.53.64).īy the way, the Adobe Reader can display information about included plugins (Help -> About Adobe Plug-Ins), but, it fails to mention Flash (tested with version 9.3.3 under Windows).Īdobe is planning an update to Reader and Acrobat ". Curious folks can get the properties of the authplay.dll* file and go to the Version tab, to see for themselves. If so, did the article mention that Reader and Acrobat were vulnerable? Probably not.ĭon't take my word for it. Perhaps you read about this latest update to Flash. Yet, in the security bulletin that Adobe issued on August 10th (the one warning that Flash version 10.1.53.64 was buggy and we should all update to version 10.1.82.76) there was no mention of the authplay.dll file. Back in July 2009, Adobe also warned that the authplay.dll file in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 was buggy. During the three week period in June 2010 that Reader and Acrobat contained buggy copies of Flash, we were advised to disable (delete or rename) the authplay.dll file. ![]()
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