Title: Macromedia Flash Flash8b.OCX ActiveX Control Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Macromedia Flash is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.
The ActiveX control with a CLSID of {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} from the 'Flash8b.ocx' COM object is prone to a denial-of-service issue. Specifically, when the 'Flash8b.AllowScriptAccess' method of this control is called with an argument consisting of an excessively long string, this issue will be triggered.
An attacker can exploit this issue to trigger denial-of-service conditions in Internet Explorer or other applications that use the vulnerable ActiveX control.
Macromedia Flash 8 is vulnerable to this issue; other versions may also be affected.
Affected Products:
- Macromedia Flash 8.0
- Macromedia Flash 8.0.22 .0
- Macromedia Flash 8.0.24.0
- Macromedia Flash 8.0.33.0
References:
- Macromedia: Macromedia Homepage
- Microsoft: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 240797
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