Flash Player 11.8.800.94 Now Available for Download

Adobe has released Flash Player 11.8.800.94 for Windows and Mac, Flash Player 11.2.202.297 for Linux, Flash Player 11.1.115.69 for Android 4.x and Flash Player 11.1.111.64 for Android 3.x. These updates address three critical-risk vulnerabilities that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions:
  • Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.224 and earlier versions for Windows should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94.
  • Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.225 and earlier versions for Macintosh should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94.
  • Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.291 and earlier versions for Linux should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.297.
  • Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will automatically be updated to the latest Google Chrome version.
  • Flash Player installed with Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 will automatically be updated to the latest Internet Explorer 10 version.
  • Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.63 and earlier versions on Android 4.x devices should update to Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.69.
  • Users of Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.59 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x should update to Flash Player 11.1.111.64.

Overview
Flash Player 11.8 drives innovation for rich, engaging digital experiences with new features for cross-platform browser-based viewing of expressive rich internet applications, content, and videos across devices. This release provides access to the Flash Player 11.8 runtime for Mac OS and Windows desktop environments.

New features in Flash Player 11.8
Flash Player 11.8 includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility. The key features and benefits of Flash Player 11.8 are:

Support for recursive stop on MovieClip()
It is common for developers to build games comprised of many externally-loaded SWF files containing multimedia assets (either from an application package or downloaded from the internet). Often, these SWFs contain MovieClips that begin playing after they are loaded. On mobile platforms, in particular, there is significant CPU overhead in processing these playing MovieClips even when they are not visible, and it has long been our recommendation to developers to call the stop method on all unnecessary MovieClips after loading a SWF. The new stopAllMovieClips method of DisplayObjectContainer is intended to provide an easier way to accomplish this. It will stop the timeline animations of all MovieClip objects that are descendants of the corresponding DisplayObjectContainer, in addition to the DisplayObjectContainer itself, if it also happens to be a MovieClip.

RectangleTexture class added to Stage3D
The RectangleTexture class is available in the BASELINE and BASELINE_EXTENDED profiles. Unlike a Texture, RectangleTexture allows for non-power-of-two dimensions, but does not support mipmapping, compressed textures, or the 'wrap' sampling mode. It supports the following texture formats: BGRA, BGR_PACKED and BGRA_PACKED. It is intended to be used for 1:1 screen drawing, including backbuffer-sized blits. The maximum size is at least 2048 in the BASELINE profile and 4096 in the BASELINE_EXTENDED profile, or the size of the backbuffer, whichever is greater.

For a full list of features in Flash Player and AIR, including features introduced in previous releases, please review the document here.

Download Flash Player 11.8.800.94 (July 9, 2013)
The following downloads provide the Flash Player 11.8.800.94 installers for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Download the files appropriate for you:

Your Flash Player Version: 11.8.800.94

What's new in Flash Player 11.8.800.94?
This build contains the following updates and fixes:

Security Fixed:
This build consists of security enhancements as listed below:
  • Fixed a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2013-3344).
  • Fixed a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2013-3345).
  • Fixed an integer overflow when resampling a user-supplied PCM buffer (CVE-2013-3347).

Sources:
Flash Player 11.8 Release Notes
Security Bulletin APSB13-17

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