Potential Vulnerability In Adobe Flash

March 20th, 2008

Potential Vulnerability In Adobe Flash

Adobe just published a note about a potential vulnerability in Flash CS3 Professional, Flash Professional 8, and Flash Basic 8. The vulnerability could potentially cause code execution. This issue does not affect any version of Flash Player.

An attacker would need to convince a user to open a malicious FLA file to successfully exploit the issue. Adobe recommends that developers exercise caution when receiving unsolicited or suspicious FLA files. This issue does not affect the Mac versions of Flash Professional and Flash Basic.

Adobe categorizes this as a critical issue and recommends that developers exercise caution when receiving unsolicited or suspicious FLA files. Adobe says they will fix this issue in their next update to Flash Professional.

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