Adobe on Thursday issued patches to fix critical bugs that have already been exploited by hackers in their attacks against Reader, Acrobat X and Adobe Flash Player.

The released patches are for Flash Player 10.2.153.1 plus earlier for versions of Windows, Solaris, Mac and Linux, 10.2.154.25 plus earlier for Chrome and 10.2.156.12 plus earlier for Android.

Adobe warns that the bug, dubbed CVE-2011-0611, is being actively exploited in the wild to launch attacks against Flash Player, and the Flash file embedded in other files like that of Microsoft Word and Excel documents.

Adobe also warns users of critical bugs in multiple versions of Acrobat X and Reader for Mac OS and Windows which expose the platforms to attack.

The bugs allow hackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines.

However, users who run Adobe Reader X Protected Mode are not at risk from a malicious exploit. Adobe Reader for Android, Adobe Reader 9. x for UNIX, Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8. x are also not affected by the bugs.