Adobe has accelerated the previously announced Flash Player patch schedule and the fix for an actively exploited critical vulnerability is expected to land tomorrow.
Last Thursday, independent security researchers
reported that a new Flash Player zero-day flaw might be actively exploited in attacks, which infect users with malware.
Adobe later
confirmed the existence of the vulnerability (CVE-2010-3654) and posted a
security advisory.
At the time, the company also announced plans to make a patch available during the week of November 9.
However, the advisory has since been updated. "
We are in the process of finalizing a fix for the issue and expect to provide an update for Flash Player 10.x for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris by November 4, 2010," it now reads.
The Flash Player for Android patch schedule remains unchanged, with a fixed version expected to ship sometime next week.
Adobe can't compare with Mozilla, which recently managed to push a fix for an actively exploited Firefox vulnerability in less than 48 hours, but one week is still a significant improvement.
Unfortunately, tomorrow's release doesn't resolve the problem, because the Flash interpreter in Adobe Reader and Acrobat is also vulnerable to the same flaw.
