The company will now fix the eight vulnerabilities in the one-year-old Illustrator and Flash Professional CS5.5, and the two-year-old Photoshop CS5, an Adobe spokeswoman said via email late Friday.

There will be no charge for the updates.

A post by Adobe's product security response team to its spelled out the change.

"We are in the process of resolving the vulnerabilities addressed in these security bulletins in Adobe Illustrator CS5.x, Adobe Photoshop CS5.x and Adobe Flash Professional CS5.x, and will update the respective security bulletins once the patches are available," the team wrote.

Neither the response team nor the Adobe spokeswoman gave a reason for the change, or even acknowledged the brouhaha prompted by the firm's earlier announcement.