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“Support for individual customers will end on April 9, 2019. Note that Adobe will also no longer accept ETLA and EULA agreements for Shockwave after April 9. “As technologies evolve and the use of mobile devices has grown, interactive content has moved to platforms such as HTML5 Canvas and WebGL and usage of Shockwave has declined,” according to the company. The reason to discontinue Shockwave is quite simple. The move to kill Shockwave comes after the company had discontinued Adobe Director in February 2017 followed by the retirement of Shockwave player for macOS next month. For those unaware, Adobe Shockwave is a browser-based multimedia platform for interactive applications and video games. “Companies with existing Enterprise licenses for Adobe Shockwave continue to receive support until the end of their current contracts,” said the company. Having said that enterprises need not worry. With the official announcement from Adobe, it is expected that third-party Shockwave players will also disappear soon. This means, you have got less than a month to relish the childhood videos games of the 90s that were based on Shockwave. After April 9, Adobe Shockwave will be discontinued and the Shockwave player for Windows will no longer be available for download. One group of hackers combined a type confusion bug in Flash with a Windows kernel bug while another group exploited an out-of-bounds bug in the platform and chained it together with an infoleak in Windows kernel.įor this year’s contest competitors can earn $50,000 for exploiting Flash in Microsoft Edge and another $30,000 if their exploit achieves SYSTEM-level code execution.Software giant Adobe has confirmed that it is finally killing its popular Shockwave platform. Hackers took down Flash on the first day of Pwn2Own last year and earned $13,000 in the process. With this year’s iteration of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking challenge held in tandem with CanSecWest in Vancouver, set to kick off tomorrow it could be only a matter of days until Adobe releases a set of emergency updates for Flash. In January it pushed out 13 patches, 12 that could have led to remote code execution in February the company patched 13 vulnerabilities, all which could have led to code execution in the software.
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The patched version, 12.2.8.198, is available at Adobe’s Shockwave Player Download Center.Īdobe has stuck by its usual Patch Tuesday patching schedule so far in 2017. The vulnerability stemmed from Shockwave’s directory search path.
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Versions 12.2.7.197 and earlier of the multimedia software plugin contained a vulnerability that if exploited could lead to escalation of privilege, a security bulletin warned.
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Devotees of Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, Macintosh and Linux are being urged to update via the program’s update mechanism.Īdobe also shipped an update for Shockwave Player for Windows on Tuesday. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 users will receive the updates automatically. Users can apply the update, 25.0.0.127, through the usual distribution channels. That vulnerability, dug up by two researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Wang Chenyu, and Wu Hongjun, could lead to information disclosure if exploited.
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The lone bug that doesn’t lead to code execution stems from a random number generator vulnerability. The vulnerabilities exist in versions 24.0.0.221 and earlier of Flash, according to a security bulletin issued by the company Tuesday morning.Īdobe is warning the six bugs–a buffer overflow vulnerability, two memory corruption vulnerabilities, and a trio of use-after-free vulnerabilities–could be exploited to trigger code execution. The company said it isn’t aware of any of the vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild but is still encouraging users to update Flash for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. Adobe on Tuesday patched seven vulnerabilities in Flash Player, six that could lead to code execution.