Adobe news: Sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox released
By Gina on February 8, 2012 | Computer Security, Adobe, Flash Player for Firefox, sandboxed Flash Player, Adobe Reader X, Google Chrome, Flash Player exploit, Adobe Reader X sandbox
This week Adobe launched a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox. This version is better for its sandbox feature.
A platform security strategist at Adobe, Peleus Uhley said in a blog: "The design of this sandbox is similar to what Adobe delivered with Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and follows the same Practical Windows Sandboxing approach. Like the Adobe Reader X sandbox, Flash Player will establish a low integrity, highly restricted process that must communicate through a broker to limit its privileged activities."
Sandboxing is appreciated for its characteristics of catching a process from the operating system in order to minimize the fallout of a potential exploit. This type of technology reaches out its peak of popularity in recent years because of its first and successful use in Google Chrome browser.
In 2010 Adobe decided to use the sandbox architecture in Adobe Reader X (10.0) which is built on the same principles that Google used for developing Chrome. Later the same year Adobe released a sandboxed version of Flash Player for Chrome.
Along with Java and Adobe Reader, Flash Player is also the most exploited program by the hackers to infect users' system. Critical Flash Player vulnerabilities may be exploited by simply visiting a malicious website, that's why it's one of the most attacked software applications.
Wiebke Lips, the company's senior manager for corporate communications, about the latest version of Flash Player: "The success of this version at deterring cybercriminals from writing Flash Player exploits in the future will largely depend on how quickly it gets adopted. In order to speed up the process, Adobe is working on a new update mechanism. We are currently in the process of researching the best path to provide Flash Player sandbox protection for Internet Explorer."
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