Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Flash Player Zero Day

Adobe plugged a security hole in its Flash Player that was getting attacked in the wild.

“Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-7855 exists in the wild, and is being used in limited, targeted attacks against users running Windows versions 7, 8.1 and 10,” the company’s advisory states.

The company issued a critical patch Wednesday for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome operating systems for versions 23.0.0.185 and earlier, and versions 11.2.202.637 and earlier.

According to Threatpost, Adobe has issued four emergency patches this year for Flash Player vulnerabilities under attack.

Adobe thanked Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard from Google's Threat Analysis Group for reporting the flaw.