Adobe patches vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Shockwave for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. The flaws could be exploited by an attacker to gain control over the vulnerable system. There is no evidence that vulnerabilities fixed by the security updates have been exploited by threat actors in the wild. The security updates also fixed an important privilege escalation flaw in Shockwave Player (CVE-2017-2983) related to the directory search path used to find resources. The flaw discovered by Nitesh Shilpkar.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/57144/breaking-news/flash-player-shockwave-updates.html