On 04/23/11 06:21, James Wilkinson wrote: > g wrote: >> latest flash is 10.2.159.1. >> >> anything prior has security and crash problems. > Craig White objected: >> the implication being that the specific version mentioned doesn't have >> known security and crash problems which I think both have been found to >> be incorrect implications. > JD asked: >> Well, have any security exploits been detected >> or publicized in latest version? > It is a truism that every non-trivial program has bugs in it. Adobe > Flash player merely seems to have way more than its fair share. > > Since it is intended to run programs from non-trusted sources, it is > inevitable that many of these bugs will have security implications. > > After too many security vulnerabilities, too many fixes, and too many > zero-day exploits going unfixed for too long, running Flash makes it way > too likely that you are vulnerable to exploits that various criminals > know about and you donât. > > At one recent security conference: > Paul Baccus, a senior threat researcher at Sophos, asked if anyone > from Adobe was in the session. After a pause a voice at the back > shouted âOf course not, itâs a security conference.â > â Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, quoted > in > http://theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1736408/insecurity-experts-banish-pdf > > James. > James, you make a good case of security vulnerability for a large class of software, not just adobe. I am just very surprised that there is no well working open source replacement that does not also hog the cpu. I had tried the gnu flash, and it was not up for the task. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
