Macromedia: 'Flash Player contains critical security flaw'
Posted by Michael Stanclift on 10 March 2003 - 02:44 · 4 comments & 605 views
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#1 Posted by kainashi on 10 Mar 2003 - 04:53
- just installed it. thanks for posting it.
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#2 Posted by kowcop on 10 Mar 2003 - 06:03
- how much bandwidth would that be again? 75% x a few hundred K of patch.. forget about spam slowing down the net
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#3 Posted by mikey on 10 Mar 2003 - 08:19
- is build 6.0.79.0 the new build?
Macromedia says up to 75 percent of computers worldwide run its player.
In its alert, the company said the vulnerability involves the player's "sandbox," which acts as a safety zone between a user's system and code downloaded from the Internet to be run within the player. The flaw, which would let an attacker create a buffer overflow, could enable an attacker to gain access to a user's system.
Macromedia recently appointed a chief security officer, who company officials say will work with developers and with the security community to bring "relentless" focus on the security of its applications.
The .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in October 1997 by a private Afghan citizen named Abdul Razeeq, according to Aimal Marjan, an adviser to the minister of communications.
According the IANA Web site, however, Razeeq later disappeared and some services were halted to the .af domain.
Efforts to relaunch it began again after the Taliban were ousted in a U.S.-led war in late 2001.
"For Afghanistan, this is like reclaiming part of our sovereignty," Communications Minister Mohammad Moassom Stanakzai said in a statement on Sunday.
So far, just two Web sites have been registered under the .af domain, one belonging to the Ministry of Communications, the other to UNDP. As of Sunday, the ministry site was still "under construction."
Despite the Internet's spread around the world in the last decade, it remains a rarity in Afghanistan, which is still struggling to recover from more than two decades of near-continuous warfare.
A handful of Internet cafes have sprung up in the war-battered capital, Kabul, since last summer, but online time is too expensive for the average citizen, who typically earns less than a dollar a day.
On the Net:
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority: http://www.iana.org
Afghan Ministry of Communications: http://www.moc.gov.af
U.N. Development Program, Afghanistan: http://www.undp.org.af