The first time was last September, when Adobe noted that Apple had shipped an older, vulnerable edition of Flash Player with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when that OS debuted in August 2009. This was only the second time that Adobe has called out Apple over including an outdated version of Flash Player with Mac OS X, according to reviews of Adobe's security blog. Apple, unlike Microsoft, handles the distribution of Flash Player updates for its users, bundling them into its OS updates. It's not unusual for Apple to lag behind Adobe in releasing Flash Player patches to its users.
