Adobe Macromedia Flash Player Flash8b.ocx denial of service
| macromedia-flash8bocx-dos (31156) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Macromedia Flash Player is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a vulnerability in the Flash8b.ocx ActiveX control. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the victim's browser to crash, if the attacker could persuade the victim to visit a malicious Web page that passes specially-crafted arguments to the Flash8b.AllowScriptAccess() method.
Platforms Affected:
- Macromedia, Flash Player 8.0
- Macromedia, Flash Player 8.0.22.0
- Macromedia, Flash Player 8.0.24.0
- Macromedia, Flash Player 8.0.33.0
Remedy:
No remedy available as of August 16, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Macromedia Web site, Flash Professional 8 at http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/flashpro/.
- BID-21818: Macromedia Flash Flash8b.OCX ActiveX Control Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-6827: Flash8b.ocx in Macromedia Flash 8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long string in the Flash8b.AllowScriptAccess method.
Reported:
Dec 29, 2006
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