Adobe shockwave player 12.2.0.162 update#

Nov 13, 2015: Shockwave for Director 12.2.0.162 and earlier. If you have the option to choose, we would urge you to use Flash Player whenever possible, and ditch Shockwave altogether. 2016: Default SearchProtected (malware) Jan 18, 2016: Adobe Flash Player (malware). Despite this, due to the vulnerabilities' severity, Adobe has labeled these two bugs as Priority 1.īecause Adobe Shockwave Player has a market share of 41% when compared to Flash's 99%, and only works on Windows, the number of potential victims is much smaller than a vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player. The two vulnerabilities in question have been labeled as CVE-2015-66880 and CVE-2015-6681 and were reported by Tongbo Luo of Palo Alto Networks.īy using a memory corruption technique, an attacker would have been able to take control of affected systems by executing arbitrary code on the victim's computer.Īdobe said they haven't observed the bugs being exploited in the wild, and that all Shockwave Player versions 12.1.9.160 and earlier are vulnerable.

Adobe shockwave player 12.2.0.162 update#

Adobe has just announced an important update to Shockwave Player with the release of version 12.2.0.162, which aims to fix two security bugs that allow attackers to execute code on all affected systems.