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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

Adobe Flash Player - Important Security Update

This tool is widely used in the browser environment and updates should be performed to the latest version.

Adobe Flash Player - Important Security Update
http://secunia.com/advisories/21865/
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3573
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-11.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/925143.mspx

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error during the handling of strings dynamically generated at runtime can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an overly long string.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when e.g. visiting a malicious website.

2) An unspecified error allows bypassing the "allowScriptAccess" option.

3) Using a "Shockwave Flash Object", it is possible to execute Flash files containing JavaScript embedded in Office documents automatically when the Office document is opened.