Exploiting Type Confusion in Flash

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40 points·cpeterso··9 comments

Am I correct in saying that this bug is because the system library methods can be modified (and that the fix is to make them read-only)? If so, that seems like a huge oversight...

This somewhat reminds me of the quirk of old FORTRAN implementations which could cause the values of constants to be changed accidentally.

Just uninstall Flash; it's no longer needed for web surfing.

Agreed. It's time to move on. Uninstall Flash & chrome://plugins Disable.

http://occupyflash.org/

Flash security has gotten so bad that security analysts can fully disclose a vulnerability patched only 2 months ago. There's been ~5 0day events since then so...

There have been 10 Linux kernel CVEs issued in the last 2 months. That includes 4 code execution and/or privilege escalation vulnerabilities. That's not even counting any 0 day's that are (probably) sitting in someone's toolbox.

The point being that this isn't a Flash/Microsoft/pick your target problem, but it's an industry wide, software engineering problem.

Could you be more specific? The last Debian security update was in April, which is more than 2 months ago.

I'm not the parent, but this is the place to look I believe: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=linu...

What do you mean a "pick-your-target problem"? I was referring to responsible disclosure.

And how many Windows 0 days has there been?

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