There's a critical upgrade for the Flash Player that was released today, so you need to get the latest version (8.0.24.0) from the Flash Player Download Center.

It looks like this also affects Breeze users and the Shockwave Player.. ..and.. it looks like if you're stuck using Flash Player 7 for some reason then you get an update too! Hurrah! So go get version 7r63 or 7.0.63.0 of the Flash Player. Flex 1.5 is also affected..

Read all about the upgrade and the vulnerabilities at the security zone page about.. ..it.. .

Also, you might consider signing up for the e-mail notification service that will alert you whenever there's a security issue found with Macromedia products (I'd point you to the Adobe page for this, but it only lists Adobe products at this point.. the acquisition is still young..)


Hey.. and for you Flash developers or designers out there.. there's a tiny gotcha in this update apparently. I'm reading the release notes to see what else changed and noticed this:
"This update introduces additional version checking to the installation process.... Flash and Flex developers may need to make slight modifications to their normal methods of switching between player versions during testing to account for this change"
And there's a technote on that little issue of course..