Adobe Flash Player version 18.0.0.160 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
- Offline FLV are running too fast Fast forward mode (3982986)
- Unable to view animated shader effect (3990831)
- Right-clicking on JWPlayer causes Firefox to hang on Windows 8 (3835579)
- Inaccurate drawing in IE on Windows 8 (3846567)
- ColorTransform applied to textfield using device font is ignored in Chrome (3959696)
- Zombie Tycoon game show blacked out screen (3924242)Few calendar control present on usflashmap.com stop working (3990982)
- Error #1014 Class flash.display3D.texture::VideoTexture is not found when running on flash player. (3955926)
- Scrolling on high density displays fails in that child elements do not scroll at the same rate as a parent container. (3746968)
- Multiple security and functional fixes
New Features
- Improved Flash Player Install Process
We have had consistent feedback from our customers that they prefer not to shut down their browsers to simply install Flash Player. This feature removes this requirement whenever possible. With Flash Player 18, in the vast majority of cases, the installer will no longer display a dialog to shut down the currently running browsers or applications that are using Flash Player!
Once the installation is completed, you will be notified that the browser may need to be restarted to use the newly installed version. This requirement depends on your browser’s ability to see the new version. Either way, Flash will continue to work and you can easily force the new version to appear by simply restarting your browser when it’s convenient for you.
- Audio APIs added to Flash Player NPAPI
We have added the ability for NPAPI-compatible browsers and applications to query the player and detect if audio is currently being played and if it can be muted. This new feature will allow applications to alert the user if audio is being played and give them the ability to mute, even if the Flash content does not.
This new API is not applicable to ActionScript developers and is only available to browser and application developers that host the Flash plugin.
- Stage3D – Standard Extended Profile for Desktop
In version 17, Standard Extended Profile was introduced on iOS and Android devices that support GL ES3. In version 18, Standard ExtendedProfile support is added for Flash Player and AIR Desktop. It is represented by a new constant ‘STANDARD_EXTENDED’ in the Context3DProfile class. This constant can be used in the requestContext3D and requestContext3DMatchingProfiles methods of Stage3D. The standardExtended profile can only be accessed if the SWF version is 28 or newer.
The following code demonstrates the usage of Context3dProfile’s constant ‘STANDARD_EXTENDED’:
requestContext3D(null,Context3DRenderMode.AUTO,Context3DProfile.STANDARD_EXTENDED);
The availability of “standardExtended” profile indicates the availability of AGAL3 which increases register limits for vertex attributes, fragment constants and tokens.
- Browser Zoom Factor for PPAPI Plugin and non-Win 8x ActiveX
We’ve introduced a feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom factor change. This feature was already present for Internet Explorer on Window 8.x. In Flash Player 18, it now supports PPAPI (Opera and Chrome) and Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and below.
Improved Resolution of Stage3D Content on Browser Zoom
Known Issues
- [DRM] Protected video displays error code “3315” instead of “3305” on Windows 10 Active X(4012174)
- [DRM] Protected video DRM 3328 error code may display the incorrect sub-error-code, such as 1000058 instead of 404
- [DRM] Protected video can get into a state where all Output Protection errors return a 3338 instead of the proper output-protection error code.
Security Updates
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions:
- Users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop runtime for Windows should update to Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160.
- Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160,
- Adobe Flash Player installed with Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x will automatically update to version 18.0.0.160.
These updates resolve a vulnerability (CVE-2015-3096) that could be exploited to bypass the fix for CVE-2014-5333.
These updates improve memory address randomization of the Flash heap for the Window 7 64-bit platform (CVE-2015-3097).
These updates resolve vulnerabilities that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin-policy and lead to information disclosure (CVE-2015-3098, CVE-2015-3099, CVE-2015-3102).
These updates resolve a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3100).
These updates resolve a permission issue in the Flash broker for Internet Explorer that could be exploited to perform privilege escalation from low to medium integrity level (CVE-2015-3101).
These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3104).
These updates resolve a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3105, CVE-2015-5120).
These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2015-3103, CVE-2015-3106, CVE-2015-3107).
These updates resolve a memory leak vulnerability that could be used to bypass ASLR (CVE-2015-3108).
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, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. 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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