Macromedia Flash ActiveX Buffer Overflow - Security Alert!

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Severity: High (Remote code execution) 05/02/2002

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. Could lead to the execution of attacker supplied code via email, web or any other avenue in which Internet Explorer is used to display html that an attacker can supply. This includes software which uses the web browser activex. We advise them to upgrade their flash version immediately to version 6, revision 29! Fix : Download the latest Flash Player