“Adobe today said it will patch Flash Player this week, addressing a vulnerability being exploited in ‘limited, targeted attacks.’
The flaw, CVE-2016-4171, exists in versions of Flash prior to, and including, 21.0.0.242 on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS platforms.
‘Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,’ Adobe said in its notification.”
Source: Fix Coming for Flash Vulnerability Under Attack | Threatpost | The first stop for security news