Adobe claims to have known about Flash-Vista loophole
By Triston McIntyre
The recent hullaballoo over the exploit that opens up Vista through Adobe Flash has the hacking community grinning from metaphorical ear to ear. The same can’t be said for Adobe, and what’s less of a surprise in the midst of the controversy is that Adobe is now claiming it knew about the exploit all along.
That’s right…according to Arstechnica, Erick Lee of Adobe has come forward saying that Adobe was aware of the flaw before it was exploited, and actually had an update for Flash readied for a release later this month. Just a short while ago, at PWN 2 OWN, a popular hacking convention, Vista was hacked via a loophole in the Adobe Flash software.
I think the obvious question here is, if Adobe knew that there was a huge loophole to be exploited through the Flash software, why wasn’t an emergency update released? It would seem more likely that Adobe is only covering for the rather massive hole in its software that led to the exploitation of Windows Vista — it seems to be one of those cases where someone knows exactly what is going on all along, but just playing it cool for the time being.
Either way, there should be an update to the widely-used format very soon. In the meantime, Vista is very much Adobe-vulnerable, whether Adobe knew about it before hand or not.
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