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November 8, 2005
Player update story
Player update story: From what I understand, on June 27 security researchers found that Macromedia Flash Player 6.x and 7.x did not validate the formatting of animation frame headers, leading to a possible buffer overflow -- my thanks to these researchers for alerting Macromedia Security. Changes to prevent this buffer overflow were rolled into the Macromedia Flash Player 8, in beta release on July 12, and subsequent final consumer release. Last week the Players for older platforms which only run the 7.x generation were also updated, as well as many of the alternate platforms. Some articles portray it as a "finally" situation, but looking at the wider picture shows the actual staged release. Upshot? If your clients or contacts hear a press account and are concerned, then that's all the more reason to use the current version, and if they're on a very old operating system then there are updated 7.x Players too.
Posted by John Dowdell at November 8, 2005 12:11 PM