Technorama

If like me you see the problem with Adobe's Flash format and how it diverts us away from the openness of the interweb market which has facilitated so much progress you'll see the bugs in Adobe's software as just another problem in their strategy.

Today I needed to use a computer in an office running Windows, at least it was Firefox, but Adobe Flash still managed to bring it down with a crash!It's fully reproducible from this page, linked from this other page with Firefox 2.0.13 and Shockwave Flash 9.0 r60, DLL v9.0.60.184 backtrace:

NPSWF32! 3000d6fa()
NPSWF32! 300d106d()
NPSWF32! 300d343e()
NPSWF32! 300e580e()
NPSWF32! 300e5a22()

3000D6FA   mov         ecx,dword ptr [eax+1Ch] <--Crash
3000D6FD   call        3000D705
3000D702   ret         4

I have plugins installed:

Shockwave Flash

File name: NPSWF32.dll
Shockwave Flash 9.0 r60

MetaFrame Secure Access Manager

File name: npCtxCAO.dll
Endpoint Analysis Client

VLC Multimedia Plugin

File name: npvlc.dll
Version 0.8.6c, copyright 1996-2006 The VideoLAN Team

http://www.videolan.org/

I've posted here as they don't provide any email address for bug reports, and they've never replied to any other communication I've sent about crash bugs in their propreitary software. Will they ever fix this? Not sure when they have loads of other exploits and privacy issues (secret cookies which ignore browser settings etc)

Labels: Adobe, Firefox