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Macromedia Flash Player Might Expose Cookies

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by Arie, 2003/04/17.

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  1. 2003/04/17
    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff Thread Starter

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    A problem with Macromedia Flash Player's advertisement-tracking feature can expose user cookies. The clickTAG parameter that Flash Player supports lets HTML pages define the click-through destination URL for a related advertisement. A malicious user can use the clickTAG parameter to insert scripting code that might execute if the Flash advertisement doesn't validate URLs before passing them to the "ActionScript getURL" function.

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    Welshjim

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    Arie--I always appreciate your "heads up" on things like this. But on this one I must confess to understanding neither the original concern, nor Macromedia's statement. It seems there is nothing we PC users can do other than not use Flash Player, which seems a little difficult to avoid completely.
     
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    BruceKrymow

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    This is disconcerting as Flash was considered to be a medium safe from enabling malicious proliferation.
     
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