The first time was last September, when Adobe noted that Apple had shipped an older, vulnerable edition of Flash Player with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when that OS debuted in August 2009. This was only the second time that Adobe has called out Apple over including an outdated version of Flash Player with Mac OS X, according to reviews of Adobe's security blog. Apple, unlike Microsoft, handles the distribution of Flash Player updates for its users, bundling them into its OS updates. It's not unusual for Apple to lag behind Adobe in releasing Flash Player patches to its users. The newest edition of the popular media player is 10.1.53.64, a 32-patch update Adobe shipped June 10, in part to fix a zero-day flaw that hackers have been exploiting since earlier this month. Others at Adobe chimed in yesterday that Apple shipped the outdated Flash Player 10.0.45.2 with Mac OS X 10.6.4, and like Arkin, urged Mac users to download a newer edition directly from Adobe's site.Īdobe patched a pair of bugs in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 for Mac and Windows in February 2010.

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