WEB ALERT!

eEye Digital Security

Macromedia Flash Activex Buffer overflow

VIRUS WARNING

Release Date:
05/02/2002

Severity:
High (Remote code execution)

Systems Affected:
Systems with Flash Activex OCX Version 6, revision 23
(Possibly older versions)
This includes most installations of Windows.

Description:
All users of Internet Explorer are potentially affected because this is a Macromedia signed OCX. We advise them to upgrade their Flash version immediately to version 6, revision 29 (see the Vendor Status section below).
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash