Adobe to patch second Hacking Team Flash zero-day bug

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2947273/malware-vulnerabilities/adobe-to-patch-second-hacking-team-flash-zero-day-bug.html

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
July 11, 2015

Adobe next week will patch a second zero-day vulnerability found in the 
leaked documents from the Hacking Team, a controversial Italian company 
that sells surveillance software and exploits to governments, Adobe said 
late Friday.

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week; Adobe did not set a release date for the fix.

"Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an 
attacker to take control of the affected system," Adobe noted in an 
advisory.

The vulnerability was the second uncovered in the gigabytes of documents 
leaked after attackers compromised the Hacking Team's network and pilfered 
emails, financial information and contracts from the firm's systems.

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