Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
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Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
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Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#2If it crashes you:
$ lynx --dump 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. :-(
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"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)
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Email: Matthew Dempsky ; 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/mdempskyRe: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#3Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#4Put a warning in the title, please. Blind linking to a browser crashing demo is not cool.
Edit: Thanks.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#5How do we downvote for linking to the actual crash with no warning.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#6How do we downvote for linking to the actual crash with no warning.
Flag it. Linking to a page that links to the crash demo with appropriate disclaimer? cool. Putting a warning in the submission title would have worked, too.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#7Put a warning in the title, please. Blind linking to a browser crashing demo is not cool. Edit: Thanks.
ClickToFlash for the win.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#8How do we downvote for linking to the actual crash with no warning.
there's a warning now
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#9Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now?
Midori does insta-crash though.
Re: Flash Crash (Warning, may crash your browser)
#10Weird, it doesn't crash on me here. I'm using Opera 10.10 browser on OS X 10.6.2