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Adobe Flash Player Version 24.0.0.186 Released

Harris

Adobe Flash Player ​version 24.0.0.186 has been released by Adobe Systems.  Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that is required for viewing of certain applications, content, and videos.

 

Fixed Issues

  • Enabling async drawing shows boundaries for transparent object (4196843).

  • Worker is taking more time to write object in a shared byte array (4170367).

  • Blank screen is observed until mouse click received after enabling Async drawing (4197066).
  • Scaling the swf does not trigger a corresponding scaling of the hit area of elements in browser(4197425).
  • Flash Player quits unexpectedly while playing http://www.evil3d.cn/example/ (4195719)
  • Black screen is observed when video is seeking on Chrome(4186499).
  • Seek bar does not appear on hovering mouse cursor on video(4186564).
  • Action Script is unable to handle MOUSE_MOVE event(4186547).
  • [Windows 7] Significant overhead is observed with Scout for Flash Player 23 on IE.(4186334)

 

New Features

Spherical video support in Flash and AIR

Spherical videos support is added to Flash Player from version 24 onward. Spherical videos have a specific meta-data attached to them, which can now be retrieved using the new property provided by the feature. This feature supports equirectangular projection type of videos conforming to 

https://github.com/google/spatial-media/blob/master/docs/spherical-video-rfc.md.

This feature is supported on Desktop devices.

Separate HTTP and HTTPS permissions for Camera and Microphone

To provide users with a better control over their camera and microphone data, Flash Player now provides a more fine-grained control over how permissions are granted. Users can now allow camera and microphone access for a domain when that content is served via HTTPS, and disallow the access when content from the domain is served over HTTP. These settings will be visible in the Global settings Manager

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Improved support for high resolution displays on Firefox for Windows

Beginning with Flash Player version 24 and Firefox version 51 on Windows, Flash content will now scale appropriately on high resolution displays.

 

Known Issues

  • Performance drop is observed on Firefox 49.0.2 when Async drawing feature is enabled.(4197072)



Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows.  These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.  

  • Adobe recommends users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows update to 24.0.0.186
  • Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will be automatically updated to the latest Google Chrome version, which will include Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 for Windows,
  • Adobe Flash Player installed with Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 and 8.1 will be automatically updated to the latest version, which will include Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186. 

 

Vulnerability Details

  • These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-7872, CVE-2016-7877, CVE-2016-7878, CVE-2016-7879, CVE-2016-7880, CVE-2016-7881, CVE-2016-7892). 

  • These updates resolve buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-7867, CVE-2016-7868, CVE-2016-7869, CVE-2016-7870). 

  • These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-7871, CVE-2016-7873, CVE-2016-7874, CVE-2016-7875, CVE-2016-7876). 

  • These updates resolve a security bypass vulnerability (CVE-2016-7890).

 

Adobe Flash Player is one of the applications that is managed and updated by ODS.  If you are a current customer, ODS will automatically update your version of Adobe Flash Player over the next few days.  ODS will deploy both the ActiveX version and the Plugin version.  This ensures that Adobe Flash Player will function with web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome.  The update will install silently.  No user interaction is required.  There are no additional fees or charges for ODS to update your version of Adobe Flash Player. 

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