A patch was released yesterday to fix seven vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. Six of them are critical bugs.

The update was the first for the software since July.

One of the bugs that were fixed is in the Flash Player ActiveX control for IE. An attacker can pilfer information by taking advantage of the hole.

“Overall their security advisories are on par with Apple’s. Well actually, I might have to give Apple a few notches up over Adobe,” said Andrew Storms of nCircle Network Security.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD