Adobe Flash Player and AIR Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Adobe Flash Player 11.x
Adobe Flash Player 10.x
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 55365
Cve id: CVE-2012-4171

Adobe Flash Player is an integrated multimedia Player. AIR is a technology developed based on the combination of network and desktop applications. It can control cloud programs on the network without having to use a browser.

Adobe Flash Player versions earlier than 10.3.183.23 and earlier than 11.4.402.265 on Windows and Mac OS X platforms. version x, version earlier than 10.3.183.23 on Linux, and version earlier than 11.2.202.238. version x, Android 2. x and 3. versions earlier than 11.1.111.16 and Android 4 on x Platform. on the x platform, versions earlier than 11.1.115.17, Adobe AIR versions earlier than 3.4.0.2540, and Adobe air sdk versions earlier than 3.4.0.2540, Adobe Flash Player and AIR have remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities, attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause the affected applications to crash.

<* Source: Attila Suszter

Link: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-19.html
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Adobe
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Adobe has released a Security Bulletin (APSB12-19) and patches for this:

APSB12-19: Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player

Link: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-19.html