Thursday, June 19, 2008

Flash bugs

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/-Dangerous-Flash-exploit-can-infect-by-stealth/0,130061744,339288283,00.htm

Zdnet.com informs that flaw in flash technology was discovered. Problem was found by IBM research engineer MarkDowd, there is a memory corruption flaw in Adobe's Flash software which allowed an attacker to take control of a computer system. Flaw relates to memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when Flash interprets a malicious Shockwave Flash (SWF) file and takes advantage of functionality provided by the Action Script.


"Flash is more influential because less interaction is needed to use Flash, it's embedded in many Web pages, and it runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and a variety of embedded platforms. So it's not just Windows, but a series of operating systems"

Is this only the matter of time before a real threat emerges?

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