Saturday, December 22, 2007

Adobe Flash Player Security [Update]

The port scanning vulnerability in Flash Player has been known since last August. At this year's CCCamp, the hacker "fukami" who found the hole demonstrated how ActionScript detects the open ports on a system. The web page Design flaw in AS3 socket handling allows port probing gives demo and a more detailed description of the problem. On this page, you can also test whether Adobe's update and the suggested workaround actually function.

Read the article HERE.

To see what version of Flash you have click HERE.

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