Re: Yet Another Emerging Web 2.0 Security Threat: Adobe Integ rated Runtime (AIR)

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

> Thanks for the link, but the OWASP table seems to be comparing apples and
> oranges.  Some of the technologies run inside of Web pages (Java and
> Flash), while other technologies run standalone applications (eg, JFX and
> AIR).  I think the security implications of standalone applications that
> have local file system access are pretty well understood. ;-)  

Maybe. Maybe not.

The real issue here is how these "applications" are implemented,
and how secure is their implementation.

It has already been exposed that earlier versions of AIR have
had serious bugs (file exclusion vulnerabilities, etc.) and this
may very well be yet another technology that exposes consumers to
unnecessarily to being exploited.

Ironically, the SAN ISC picked up on this, too:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4019

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/



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