Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.271 has been released.

The key features and benefits of Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.271 are:

Resolved Security Issues

• Addresses a vulnerability (CVE-2012-1535) that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system

There are reports that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in limited targeted attacks, distributed through a malicious Word document. The exploit targets the ActiveX version of Flash Player for Internet Explorer on Windows.

You can download Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.271 from http://www.adobe.com