However, Windows XP users running the older Flash Player, version 9.0.115, are vulnerable to the attack, Greenbaum said. That means that Windows and Mac OS X users with the latest updates are not vulnerable, and even Linux users who are running the latest Flash Player plugin inside their browser, rather than as stand-alone software, are safe. Now Symantec believes that the vulnerability was simply not properly patched in this one version of Adobe's software, Greenbaum said. "We thought it was a problem with the exploit," he said. On Tuesday Symantec researchers saw that the attack worked on Linux and that it caused Flash Player to crash on Windows XP, so they reasoned that they had a new bug that was just not working properly on the Windows platform, possibly due to a programming error by the hackers.
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