Snow Leopard using older version of Flash?

Seth Weintraub
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September 03, 2009
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According to UK security vendor Sophos, the shipping version of Flash in Snow Leopard (10.0.23.1) isn't the most recent.  In fact, it is a few months old and likely would have installed over a newer version had you kept up with Flash updates.

Sophos being a security vendor, recommends Snow Leopard users to update to the latest version of Flash, lest they be vulnerable to the latest security attacks aimed at Flash users.   To find out what version of Flash you are using, head to Adobe's Version tester here.

Adobe have also reccomended that Snow Leopard users upgrade their Flash players:

The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is available from Adobe.com. We recommend all users update to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) -- which supports Snow Leopard and is available for download from http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.

 

 

Via Macworld UK

Comments (11)

Peruchito (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 6:13am

or you could just avoid flash all together

RCGA | September 03, 2009 - 6:33am

 If only...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 6:33am

Yeah ! And Leopard also, and Tiger also, and Windows XP also, and Windows Vista also... Stop spreading bulshit !

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 6:46am

Seth: I reccomend that you activate your spell checker

admin | September 03, 2009 - 8:15am

 Deployed, thanks.

Vaganza (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 7:15am

r-e-c-o-m-m-e-n-d

How is this news? The latest version of Flash was released after SL went Gold Master, just like the fact that most printers come with a disk full of out-of-date drivers.

imactor (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 7:50am

I don't see the big of a deal here. Just update the Flash player and it's done

Woody | September 03, 2009 - 9:45am

Maybe I'll stick with it anyway. Flash's current crappiness is almost enough to make me install Silverlight. Almost, but not quite.

TrashGoblin (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 10:49am

After updating my macbook to 10.6 and reading this story I did find that I had Flash 10.0.23. However, I honestly couldn't tell you if I had the updated 10.0.32 with 10.5 or not.

I hope people aren't going to freak out too much about this. A new operating system had a minor bug that was brought to our attention less than a week after release? I don't see much scandal in that.

I am more curious why sites requiring flash don't give the normal alert saying "A newer version of Flash is available, would you like to update?"

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 11:02am

I'm in the habit of updating Flash every few weeks. It's a moving target, with frequent updates.

When was the last time you updated Flash on Tiger, Leopard or on Windows? More than a few weeks ago? Then you should go to Adobe and do an update today.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 03, 2009 - 3:09pm

ClicktoFlash for the win. Without I'd just abandon Flash altogether since so many pages with idle flash ads eat up so much CPU.