Adobe Security Advisory for flash: CVE-2016-4117

[Elixer]

In continuing to show how bad Adobe's products are...

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa16-02.html

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) exists in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.226 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome OS. Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-4117 exists in the wild. Adobe will address this vulnerability in our monthly security update, which will be available as early as May 12. For the latest information, users may monitor the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team blog.
Severity ratings

Adobe categorizes this as a critical vulnerability.

 

[PliotronX]

Another day, another Flash exploit.

 

[uberman]

I uninstalled Adobe Flash Player from all of my computers 18 months ago and I'm quite content without it. Sometimes I really do want to watch a video rather than reading about something. I simply look up the video on youtube, where you don't need flash player.

IMHO I believe that flashplayer is a malicious program. Besides the constant updates it needed I got tired of the horror stories its caused others. I downloaded the uninstall program for flashplayer and got rid of it. No real inconvenience.

I wish other sites like the BBC and weather.com would get rid of flashplayer also.