Dangerous unpatchable flaw discovered in Adobe Flash

Anupam · 14. Nov 2009, 10:14 AM

Yet again, a critical vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash, and this one seems to be un-patchable till now.

Details here :

http://www.techspot.com/news/36958-d...obe-flash.html

prairie dog · 14. Nov 2009, 02:30 PM

thanks for the link

Anupam · 14. Nov 2009, 10:35 PM

Welcome

.

More news on this link, thanks to a user who posted on main site.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...7&pageNumber=1

Every time or the other, critical vulnerabilities are being discovered in Adobe products, be it the pdf reader, or flash. There are now good alternatives available to pdf reader. Some alternative should be available now, to Adobe Flash. Since Adobe Flash is so widespread on the internet, this unpatchable vulnerability will put a whole lot of users on risk.

systemcrash · 15. Nov 2009, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Anupam

Welcome

.

More news on this link, thanks to a user who posted on main site.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...7&pageNumber=1

Every time or the other, critical vulnerabilities are being discovered in Adobe products, be it the pdf reader, or flash. There are now good alternatives available to pdf reader. Some alternative should be available now, to Adobe Flash. Since Adobe Flash is so widespread on the internet, this unpatchable vulnerability will put a whole lot of users on risk.

I think i may be some help on this one. :-) theres a website www.alternativeto.net it has alternatives for may programs freeware and commercial ect on wondows, mac, and linux. i typed in adobe flash and alternatives came up follow the link http://alternativeto.net/desktop/ado...atform=windows hope it helps..

Anupam · 15. Nov 2009, 02:36 AM

Thanks... but those are alternatives to building flash videos and objects. I was talking about an alternative to flash used on webpages. I don't think we would be having an alternative to that very soon.

15. Nov 2009, 03:09 AM

We certainly need more choice. Silverlight doesn't seem to have been adopted by many except for some of Microsoft's web sites. I have been thinking this very same thing about this lately. All the websites on the web that use animation, probably 99% use flash and the rest use quicktime, silverlight, wmp, etc.
All the users of 64bit windows have to use 32bit browsers because there are no 64bit plugins for flash. I wish some other organization would come out and compete against adobe on this issue.

bk_7312 · 16. Nov 2009, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyDollar

We certainly need more choice.

HTML5?

Quote:

HTML5 aims to reduce the use of proprietary plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX, though it would take many years to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

See also: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...d_Silverlight_

16. Nov 2009, 04:26 AM

Yeah I read that article, like the quote said: "though it would take many years to do so". I guess we are stuck with what we have in the near term.

Anupam · 16. Nov 2009, 08:13 AM

Yup, the "many years" thing does not give much to cheer about

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Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,187	Dangerous unpatchable flaw discovered in Adobe Flash Yet again, a critical vulnerability has been discovered in Adobe Flash, and this one seems to be un-patchable till now. Details here : http://www.techspot.com/news/36958-d...obe-flash.html __________________ Anupam

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Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,187	Welcome . More news on this link, thanks to a user who posted on main site. http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...7&pageNumber=1 Every time or the other, critical vulnerabilities are being discovered in Adobe products, be it the pdf reader, or flash. There are now good alternatives available to pdf reader. Some alternative should be available now, to Adobe Flash. Since Adobe Flash is so widespread on the internet, this unpatchable vulnerability will put a whole lot of users on risk. __________________ Anupam

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Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,187	Thanks... but those are alternatives to building flash videos and objects. I was talking about an alternative to flash used on webpages. I don't think we would be having an alternative to that very soon. __________________ Anupam

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Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,187	Yup, the "many years" thing does not give much to cheer about . __________________ Anupam

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15. Nov 2009, 03:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
Abandoned Guest Posts: n/a	We certainly need more choice. Silverlight doesn't seem to have been adopted by many except for some of Microsoft's web sites. I have been thinking this very same thing about this lately. All the websites on the web that use animation, probably 99% use flash and the rest use quicktime, silverlight, wmp, etc. All the users of 64bit windows have to use 32bit browsers because there are no 64bit plugins for flash. I wish some other organization would come out and compete against adobe on this issue.

16. Nov 2009, 04:26 AM	#8 (permalink)
Abandoned Guest Posts: n/a	Yeah I read that article, like the quote said: "though it would take many years to do so". I guess we are stuck with what we have in the near term.