Adobe apologizes for 16-month-old Flash bug

Adobe has apologized for the presence of a 16-month old bug in its popular Flash Player. This, despite the fact that the product has seen four separate security updates since it was reported to Adobe on September 22, 2008.

So what exactly happened? Product Manager for Flash Player, Emmy Huang elaborated in the company blog, "The mistake we made was marking this bug for 'next' release, which is the soon-to-be-released Flash Player 10.1, instead of marking it for the next Flash Player 10 security dot release."

While the company says that the vulnerability does nothing more than cause the browser to crash, it is mind-boggling how such an error could have slipped through the cracks, and for so long. For now, the problem has been fixed in the beta of Flash Player 10.1, though it has no release date at this point, unfortunately.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Network World
- check out this blog at Adobe

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