Adobe Releases Security Updates for Shockwave Player, ActionScript 3

Adobe released a security update to address “critical vulnerabilities” in Shockwave Player for Macintosh and Windows Tuesday, said an alert from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. U.S.-CERT said in a separate alert that Adobe also released security updates addressing vulnerabilities within the classes of Flash Player that could allow a “remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system." Affected versions of Adobe include Adobe Flash Player 9 through 18.0.0.204.