On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except > > the vendor > > False. In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin > libflashplayer.so so that all its calls to memcpy become calls to memmove. > The change is to copy the .st_name field from the symbol for memmove to the > .st_name field of the symbol for memcpy, which creates another instance > of memmove. With that one 32-bit change, then the player will work. > Memmove can be a few percent slower than memcpy, but nobody will notice. Doesn't flash use some (in-)security scheme which involves checksumming its own binary? I vaguely thought that was how the BBC iPlayer DRM works ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
