Flash Security Vulnerabilities : Adobe Fixes for Some, FireFox FlashBlock Extension, etc.
posted Saturday, 29 December 2007
| | If you have read the earlier alerts on Adobe Flash's security vulnerabilities and the previous entry - you may want to pick and choose what you execute in your browser. I have downloaded a nice FireFox extension, FlashBlock. It is very nice and allows you to choose whether to execute Flash content. This provides a double-win - you are put in the driver seat on what Flash to execute and doesn't download the content automatically (making for faster page rendering). Discussion of the security issue with Flash is discussed at Slashdot. In addition, Adobe has released some patches that fix a number of security issues - I am not sure if it addresses the above problem - the original Register article seems to indicate that these latest Adobe fixes do not fix the above problem and that the problem will be very difficult to fix. You can get more details at CERT on the currently available fixes.. | |
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