[caption id="attachment_627" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Adobe flash media player for OS X[/caption]Adobe today acknowledged Apple for OS X flash player vulnerability and released an update for OS X Flash player. A critical vulnerability was found few weeks earlier. All the versions of adobe flash player which are prior to 14.0.0.145 will not run in Safari browser.

OS X Flash player update released

As said by an official over the Apple's support site, all the earlier versions of flash player installed over the Safari would be seen blocked. An alert message of Flash security alert or Flash out-of-date would pop up as soon as you run the flash media plugin.

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For those who do not want to update Flash player will need to work in the safe mode. Safari's safe mode is available in the versions higher that 6.1 [caption id="attachment_628" align="aligncenter" width="434"] OS X flash player vulnerability[/caption]

OS X Flash player vulnerability found

Three critical vulnerabilities were found in OS X flash player. One of them was found by Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo that could withdraw sensitive information surreptitiously. Spagnuolo created a dubbed Rosetta flash with which he was able to convert malicious SWF files, bypass a JSONP callback and send arbitrary requests. Michele Spagnuolo said on his blog that an attacker can send arbitrary request through targeted machine on the external domain which is operated by him.

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Two other issues regarding the bypass vulnerability were also resolved in the patch released by Adobe on Tuesday. For more assistance check out adobe website.

Apple did same as Mozilla

Last year also a security issue was found in flash player plugin for Mozilla. After the update was released Mozilla blocked the older versions of the plugin.

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