Exploit code to Flash DoS security vulnerability released

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Exploit code to Flash DoS security vulnerability released

Postby J-M » Fri 18 Nov, 2005 12:30 pm

So-called PoC exploit has been released at
http://www.frsirt.com/exploits/20051118.Flashosx.c.php

to security issue from 5th Nov. handled at http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10175

It is possible bad guys (and girls) to generate a flash file that will cause a DoS (Denial of Service state).

It's time to update Macromedia Flash Player shipped with Netscape etc. or downloaded later from Macromedia site to the newest 8.x version 8.0.22.0.

More details at
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2317

Windows and Linux OSs are affected!
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
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