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Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml () ngolde de>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:21:57 +0200
Hi Marcus, * Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de> [2008-08-23 18:05]:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:22:57PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:* Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de> [2008-08-19 16:48]:Wonder if we should track updates for swfdec. The 0.6.8 announcement looks like it at least fixes several Denial of Service problems:[...] I have problems to understand why this would be a Denial of Service. While I don't share the opinion about browser crashes I think there are at least good arguments for both sides.If it can be triggered by a SWF on the website, I would perhaps call it a security issue. If it crashes the SWF mozilla plugin and so the browser, it is a denial of service in my eyes.
I'm not sure how firefox handles this, at least opera does not crash if the flash plugin crashes.
More importantly if code execution is possible.
That should be self-evident. [...]
It would be interesting what is causing this crash and if there is underlying a more serious issue.Not really investigated and no time :/ Since swfdec is beta and not yet wildy iin use we could let it rest.
Yeah same here, maybe we can get comments about this by the upstream people. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion () jabber ccc de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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- Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update Nico Golde (Aug 19)
- Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update Marcus Meissner (Aug 23)
- Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update Nico Golde (Aug 23)
- Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update Marcus Meissner (Aug 23)
- Re: swfdec 0.6.8 stable update Nico Golde (Aug 19)