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Vigil@nce: Windows XP, vulnerabilities of Flash Player 6
January 2010 by Vigil@nce
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Adobe Flash Player 6 plugin, which was included in Windows XP, is now obsolete.
Severity: 2/4
Consequences: user access/rights
Provenance: document
Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
Creation date: 13/01/2010
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
Microsoft Windows XP
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Windows XP was installed with Adobe Flash Player 6, so users did not have to download it from the Adobe web site.
However, version 6 of Flash Player is now obsolete. The current version of Flash Player is 10.
This plugin is thus impacted by old vulnerabilities of Adobe Flash Player 6.
CHARACTERISTICS
Identifiers: 979267, BID-37753, VIGILANCE-VUL-9336, VU#204889
