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This New Vulnerability: Dowd's Inhuman Flash Exploit
posted by
David Adams
on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:58 UTC, submitted by
supergear
IBM researcher Mark Dowd has outlined a Flash vulnerability that could allow for a rare cross-platform web-based exploit. Matasano Chargen uses a Super Mario metaphor, an example we can all relate to, to
illuminate it
.
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