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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-might-make-adobe-think dept.

A ComputerWorld story explains that Mozilla has taken the unusual step of blocking all Flash after the announcement of the third 'zero-day' vulnerability in the last few days. It is possible to override the block by user selection for a single flash link or for all links. The block is in force even if Flash player has been updated since the first vulnerability was announced.

Mozilla on Monday began blocking all versions of Adobe Flash Player from running automatically in its Firefox browser, reacting to news of even more zero-day vulnerabilities unearthed in a massive document cache pilfered from the Italian Hacking Team surveillance firm.

Mozilla engineers swung into action over the weekend after reports surfaced late Friday of another Flash zero-day -- the term that describes a flaw for which there is yet no fix, or patch -- discovered in the gigabytes of data and documents stolen from the Hacking Team. At the time, the bug was the second in Flash spotted in just five days.

After reading the block warning, Firefox users can still run Flash content by authorizing the plug-in's operation. Since then a third Flash zero-day has cropped up.

Neither the second or the third vulnerability had been patched by Adobe as of late Monday, although the company has promised to do so this week.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @03:43AM (#209202)

    Many years ago I had to deal with a developer from Adobe. He was pretty obnoxious and was convinced that Adobe was better at programming than any other company. I got the distinct impression that he wasn't the only one at Adobe that felt that way. I doubt they could imagine that things could be better with someone else helping out.