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JD comments on the Flash Player buffer overflow

John writes about the buffer overflow in the Flash 6 player revision 23 Nice to see John coming aboard with comments about the buffer overflow. from what I see both of these are reading buffers. Even if you could pass bad code to the Flash Player this way, it still can’t break out of its sandbox I still think there is lacking information from Macromedia, the technote at Macromedia Security Center is just linking to a Reuters news story and not giving any indepth facts about it. (Which John is

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Integrating Radio and Flash MX

… or how to integrate Flash with any content management system.. Mike Chambers has made a nice tutorial showing how to hook up Flash 6 with dynamic backends. His tutorial shows how to integrate Flash 6 with Radio, a weblog system from Userland, but it applies to almost any system. It is equally easy to integrate Flash 6 with Moveable Type, the weblog system I am using for this blog. In fact, Samuel Wan has already started on a Flash 6 interface for Moveable Type – His implementation takes a

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A Flash-forward look

Jon Udell writes about Macromeida MX / Flash remoting. A good read if you are still wondering what all the new features and bells really entails. A Flash-forward look If Macromedia can transform Flash from a multimedia shell into a popular presentation layer for Internet-based business applications, the missing pieces of the Web-services puzzle — identity management; security context; reliable messaging; and real-time, two-way data communication — will come into focus more quickly. [Via Flash Blog]

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ActiveX flaw exposes Flash users to hacks

Via Flazoom: ActiveX flaw exposes Flash users to hacks ZDNet writes about a buffer overflow vulnerability in the previous version of the Flash 6 player (revision 23), the overflow allows for attacks via some HTML e-mail clients and when visiting malicious web sites. The problem only exist for Internet Explorer on the Windows platform. If you haven’t already, its a good idea to update to the latest version of the Flash 6 player – the update fixes the overflow vulnerability, and also fixes some other serious bugs in the Flash

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Branden Blogs Best?

Ok, so I am in the ‘b’ mood ;-D Branden Hall, ActionScript guru, FigLeaf senior developer, Flashcoder list daddy and general cool Flash guy has his own weblog up and running. (Thanks to Mike for the heads up) You can find Branden’s weblog at WaxPraxis BTW: For more Flash weblogs, check out my earlier posting about Flash blogs: Flash blogs keep on spreading.. Macromedian bloggers Check also out the Flash blogs links on the right menu..

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Macromedia releases new version of Flash 6 player

There was some serious issues with the previous version of the Flash 6 player: Macromedia – Flash TechNotes: Updated Macromedia Flash Player Active X control resolves streaming issues The issues should have been fixed in the new version of the Flash 6 player that is out now. The fixes include: Interrupting of loading media into player does not halt, rather queues and loads entire file. LoadSound continues to download even though the object is stopped, unloaded, or deleted When an event sound is playing and the sound object gets deleted,

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