Adobe Emergency: Fixes the zero-day bug with emergency update

Adobe gives the emergency update for its popular Flash Player program warned that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the program.
Flash Player 10.2.159.1, was released for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris on April 15. This update was Adobe’s second emergency patch in less than a month.

Adobe acknowledged the latest security flaw in Flash Player on April 11(security advisory CVE-2011-0611) and promised an emergency update to fix the flaw. Until the flaw was fixed, users were encouraged to disable Flash entirely.
Over the past couple years, Google has detected a variety of attacks on users of Gmail and other services. A spear phishing campaign disclosed in June targeted senior US government officials, military officials, and Chinese political activists. In March, the search giant warned that politically motivated attackers were exploiting a then unpatched vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows to spy on Google users.

Android users can upgrade by browsing to the Android Marketplace on their handsets.
Wednesday's patch fixes at least five other vulnerabilities that made it possible for attackers to remotely executive code or steal potentially sensitive information on machines running Flash.

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