SELinux

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 16:29:53 Takehiko Abe wrote:
> You mentioned "Dowd exploit of flash". Google returns:
> 
>     "IBM researcher Mark Dowd has outlined a Flash vulnerability that
>      could allow for a rare cross-platform web-based exploit."
> 
> This is definitely not the incident of the exploits you suggested.
> No email got stolen. It says Mark Dowd is an IBM researcher.
> He is not a criminal.

Mark Dowd is an IBM researcher who discovered the hole in flash and constructed 
the exploit. You can read about all gory details in his paper:

  http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf

And since he is not a criminal, he published his findings so that Adobe can fix 
the appropriate hole.

HTH, :-)
Marko