Security Flaw Found in Flash Player

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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,98263,00.asp

Sam Costello, IDG News Service
Friday, May 03, 2002

A security hole in the way Macromedia's Flash player handles ActiveX
content could allow an attacker to run the code of their choice on
vulnerable systems, according to a security advisory published by eEye
Digital Security late Thursday.

Macromedia is offering a new download of the player which fixes the
flaw.

The vulnerability affects the Flash.ocx ActiveX component of the Flash
player version 6 revision 23, and may affect earlier versions as well,
Aliso Viejo, California, eEye says in its alert. The Flash.ocx
component is installed with Internet Explorer, as well as with the
Flash player, eEye says.

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A buffer overflow in Flash.ocx could allow an attacker to run code of
their choice on a vulnerable system when a user reads an
HTML-formatted e-mail containing attack code, visits a Web site with
attack code in it or uses Internet Explorer to display any other third
party HTML, eEye says.

EEye says that Macromedia, based in San Francisco, was already aware
of the issue when it contacted the company and that the latest version
of the Flash player fixed the flaw. Users should upgrade to the latest
version of the Flash player, version 6 revision 29, eEye says.

The updated Flash player can be downloaded from Macromedia's Web site.



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