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Flash pluginFlash pluginPosted Nov 10, 2010 19:13 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs
I find it interesting that the issue was found on the flash plugin. Out of the thousands of commonly used packages, did only flash get it wrong? Or was it just bad luck of being the first to get hit by the change?
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Flash plugin Posted Nov 10, 2010 19:20 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]
It is probable that Flash Player is the worst piece of widely-deployed software on Linux clients by a huge margin.
Flash plugin Posted Nov 11, 2010 0:37 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> I find it interesting that the issue was found on the flash plugin.
Steve Jobs at work in glibc?
Flash plugin Posted Nov 11, 2010 19:28 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
Out of the thousands of commonly used packages, almost all have always had some user on a platform that doesn't handle overlapping ranges to memcpy. Flash is essentially the last to get hit by the change: everybody else hit the issue earlier on platforms that don't get much press.
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