Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:16:42PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 12:41 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > 2) Issues found in proprietary software cannot be fixed by anybody except
> >    the vendor
> False.  In this particular case, it is possible to binary edit the plugin
> libflashplayer.so so that all its calls to memcpy become calls to memmove.

Cannot legally.

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  translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You shall not
  reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover
  the source code of the Software. [...]


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences