If it crashes you: $ lynx --dump http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ If you are reading this from a browser using Adobe's Flash P

If it crashes you: $ lynx --dump http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ If you are reading this from a browser using Adobe's Flash Player plug-in (i.e., if you see a blue rectangle below), it will probably crash within the next few seconds. :-( [EMBED] "Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today," Lynch wrote. "Addressing crash issues is a top priority in the engineering team, and currently there are open reports we are researching in Flash Player 10." [1]Adobe Defends Flash, Calls Apple Uncooperative This page exploits a bug that I reported to Adobe in September 2008, and has affected every release of Flash on every platform since then. Despite numerous email exchanges with the Flash product manager about the bug, the bug report being hidden from the public for "security" reasons, and Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch's claims otherwise, it continues to be an issue. * [2]Original Bugtraq posting * [3]CVE-2008-4546 * [4]Link to Adobe JIRA bug report (not accessible to the public anymore) _________________________________________________________________ Email: Matthew Dempsky <[5]matthew@dempsky.org>; Twitter: [6]@mdempsky References 1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358815,00.asp 2. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/496929/100/0/threaded 3. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4546 4. http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-677 5. mailto:matthew@dempsky.org 6. http://twitter.com/mdempsky