Re: Critical Hole Found in Flash Player

torsten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Organization Linux From Scratch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>advised users to install a new version that it released
>
>No users had reported having being affected by the problem as of Monday
>evening, the  company advised users  to download  a new version  of the
>player
>
>It  also offers  other  tweaks  intended to  boost  performance of  the
>product.

I wonder if vendors of  proprietary, closed-source software use security
scares to force users to upgrade to new features and licensing clauses.

Is there independent verification of the security hole?

Torsten
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