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SECURITY VULNERABILITY IN MACROMEDIA PLAYERS
Macromedia Flash Player is used to display interactive, flash
Web content that often comes in the form of a Shockwave file (.SWF).
Macromedia's Flash player now comes by default with many Web browsers
and is available for many platforms.
By sending you an HTML e-mail or enticing your to a malicious Web site,
a hacker could exploit a buffer overflow bug in the player and run
malicious code on your machine.
For the latest and safest versions of both Flash player and Shockwave
player, go to ...
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
- mark
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