Adobe Flash player security update is out

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A week late, but what the heck. APSB17-32. Details on the Adobe site.
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I have Flash disabled in the Edge browser and control panel has the Flash Player tab for updating grayed out. I assume that I do not have Flash on my computer (Win 10 Home). Is that a safe assumption? If I am right then I further assume that I do not need to go to the Adobe website to update.

Advice appreciated.  And thanks to Woody and all of you.

= Ax Kramer

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You have FlashPlayer associated with IE11, but the update is provided through Windows Update IE11 Update and you do not have to do anything. No downloading on your part.

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For those who manually update Adobe Flash Player, here are the direct download links for the off-line (full) installers for version 27.0.0.170, as well as the Uninstaller, all “clean” — (right-click; select Save Link As):

NPAPI for Firefox, Safari, Opera: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe | 19.8 MB

AX for Internet Explorer: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe | 19.3 MB

PPAPI for Opera and Chromium-based browsers: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ppapi.exe | 19.7 MB

Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller: http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe | 1.25 MB

As mentioned above by @PKCano, Microsoft will provide the update for IE and Edge in Windows 8.1 and 10 through Windows Update.

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AJNorth wrote:

Microsoft will provide the update for IE and Edge in Windows 8.1 and 10 through Windows Update.

Although they can be manually updated through the Adobe pages too…

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Thank you for providing the full (i.e. crapware-free) installers.  They had gone AWOL from my usual source.

Dell E5570 Latitude, Intel Core i5 6440@2.60 GHz, 8.00 GB - Win 10 Pro

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They are also available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html and https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html.

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Of course, the links are always available through AKB1000002: Links to Flash Update Resources 🙂

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If Chrome tests as not having been updated yet, type into the Address Bar chrome://components and use the Component Updating button.

-- rc primak

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Thanks Woody. My month doesn’t feel complete unless I’ve patched some critical Flash vulnerabilities.

Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie

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Chrome is my default browser on two Windows 7 machines.  Nevertheless, just in case I need it, I keep Internet Explorer updated.  To update the Active X version of Adobe Flash I set Internet Explorer as my default browser and then do the following:

>control panel>system and security>flash player>updates>check now

which takes me to the Adobe Flash update page where I following the instructions for updating Flash.  After the installation is complete I reset Chrome as my default browser.

Alternatively, if I navigate to the Adobe Flash update page using Chrome the page recognizes that I am using Chrome and states that Flash is built in.  However, there is a button that states “Need Flash Player for a different computer?”  Clicking that button I can then select my operating system and the Active X version of Flash.  Would doing this work as well as the more cumbersome way that I have been using to update Flash?

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You should be able to download the Flash Player Active X installer that way and manually install it.

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