Possible Widespread Software Security Hole Found.

[bonkers325]

An independent computer expert says he has found a gaping security hole in widely used Internet software that could give hackers the ability to easily access users' computers.

The security issue is with the Macromedia Flash Player plug-in, a piece of software that allows users to view Web pages with animated multimedia content.

The majority of personal computers connected to the Internet are at risk, since most Web browsers come with the plug-in preinstalled. Macromedia's Web site claims that 96 percent of Internet users have the Flash software in question.

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[jinglingxl]

bonkers, why don't you just get a job at anandtech as a news updater?

 

[bonkers325]

hey u know what i never thought of that

hehe bah

 

[Lord Evermore]

So, Flash is susceptible to the same bug that one version of IE was (I believe if you typed in an extremely large URL or something, it would crash the browser and execute whatever was in the URL past the 255th character).